Genesis 32:23

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

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  • Gen 32:19-22
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    19 He 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.

    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.”

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

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

  • Gen 32:16-17
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    16 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.”

    17 He 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?’

  • 21 He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 32:13-14
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    13 Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

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

  • Gen 32:24-25
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    24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

    25 When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

  • Gen 31:17-18
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    17 So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

    18 He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

  • Gen 32:3-4
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    3 Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

    4 He 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.

  • Gen 32:7-8
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    7 Jacob 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.”

  • 27 The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”

  • 23 So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

  • 5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked,“Who are these people with you?” Jacob replied,“The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

  • 11 Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need.” When Jacob urged him, he took it.

  • 1 Jacob 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.

  • 4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • 54 After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said,“Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

  • 35 So 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.

  • 5 So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  • 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother

  • 42 But 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.

  • 25 The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

  • 7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.