Genesis 32:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • Gen 35:3 : 3 Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”
  • Exod 14:10 : 10 When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,
  • Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me. 5 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
  • Ps 31:13 : 13 For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me. 5 Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to a rocky summit where I can be safe!
  • Ps 107:6 : 6 They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.
  • Ps 142:4 : 4 Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.
  • 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 8:26 : 26 But he said to them,“Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.
  • 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.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying,“We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living. 9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead. 10 He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,
  • 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  • Gen 32:11 : 11 Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

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  • Gen 32:8
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    8“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.”

  • Gen 33:1
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    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.

  • Gen 32:6
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    6The messengers returned to Jacob and said,“We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

  • Gen 32:16-23
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    16He 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.”

    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 32:2-4
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    2When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed,“This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.

    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.

  • Gen 32:13-14
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    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,

  • Gen 32:11
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    11Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

  • Gen 31:31
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    31“I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban.“I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

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

  • Gen 30:42
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    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 36:6
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    6Esau 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

  • Gen 30:40
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    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 35:5
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    5and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.