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Genesis 32:8
He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
Genesis 32:8 · World English Bible
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Genesis 32:8 in other translations
And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
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In context
5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies.
8 He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.
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