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Genesis
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English: Webster's Bible |
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Genesis 32 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. |
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And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. |
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom. |
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And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there till now: |
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And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and men-servants, and women-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. |
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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. |
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and herds, and camels, into two bands; |
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And said, If Esau shall come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, will escape. |
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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who saidst to me, Return to thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee; |
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shown to thy servant: for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. |
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Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he shall come and smite me, and the mother with the children. |
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And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. |
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And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau, his brother; |
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Two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, |
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. |
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. |
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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau, my brother, meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? |
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Then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob's: it is a present sent to my lord Esau: and behold also he is behind us. |
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And so he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, In this manner shall ye speak to Esau, when ye find him. |
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And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. |
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So the present went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the company. |
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