5 aI have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that bI may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”
6 Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and ahe also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
7 So Jacob was greatly afraid and adistressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.
8 And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and1 attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”
9 aThen Jacob said, b“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord cwho said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the amercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with bmy staff, and now I have become two companies.
11 aDeliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and1 attack me and bthe mother with the children.
12 For aYou said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the bsand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”
13 So he lodged there that same night, and took what1 came to his hand as aa present for Esau his brother:
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Genesis 32:7.
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