Genesis 32:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

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  • Gen 32:20 : 20 You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”
  • Gen 33:8-9 : 8 Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.” 9 But Esau said,“I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.
  • Prov 2:11 : 11 Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Persecution of Disciples“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

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  • Gen 32:17-23
    7 verses
    82%

    17He instructed the servant leading the first herd,“When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’

    18then you must say,‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”

    19He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying,“You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

    20You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”

    21So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

    22During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

    23He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

  • Gen 32:13-15
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    80%

    13Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

    14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

    15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

  • Gen 33:12-15
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    78%

    12Then Esau said,“Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”

    13But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

    14Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

    15So Esau said,“Let me leave some of my men with you.”“Why do that?” Jacob replied.“My lord has already been kind enough to me.”

  • Gen 30:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    35So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted(all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.

    36Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

  • Gen 30:40
    74%

    40Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.

  • Gen 32:7-8
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    74%

    7Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

    8“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.”

  • Gen 33:8
    74%

    8Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.”

  • Gen 32:3-5
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    73%

    3Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

    4He commanded them,“This is what you must say to my lord Esau:‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

    5I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

  • Gen 30:31-32
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    31So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:

    32Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

  • Gen 30:42
    73%

    42But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

  • Gen 33:1-2
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    72%

    1Jacob Meets Esau Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

    2He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.

  • Gen 45:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.

    24Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them,“As you travel don’t be overcome with fear.”

  • Gen 31:17
    72%

    17So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

  • Gen 31:9
    72%

    9In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

  • Num 32:27
    71%

    27but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the LORD’s presence, just as my lord says.”

  • Gen 36:7
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    7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

  • Gen 24:35
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    35“The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 45:17
    71%

    17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!