Genesis 32:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"

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  • Gen 32:4-5 : 4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. 5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"

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  • Gen 32:19-21
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    89%

    19He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

    20You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

    21So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

  • Gen 32:16-17
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    88%

    16He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

    17He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

  • Gen 32:3-6
    4 verses
    81%

    3Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

    4He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

    5I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"

    6The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

  • Gen 33:8
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    8Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 32:8-9
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    76%

    8and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

    9Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'

  • Gen 33:12-15
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    76%

    12Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

    13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

    14Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."

    15Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 30:29
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    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

  • Gen 33:5
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    5He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

  • Gen 33:1
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    1Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.

  • Deut 2:4
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    4Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

  • Gen 32:13
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    13He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

  • Gen 30:31
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    31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

  • Gen 50:18
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    18His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

  • Gen 33:10
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    10Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

  • Gen 27:37
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    37Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"

  • Gen 31:3
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    3Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

  • Gen 27:6
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    6Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,