◄ Genesis 32:8 ►
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Good News Translation
He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks the first group, the other may be able to escape."

New Revised Standard Version
thinking, “If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company that is left will escape.”

Contemporary English Version
He thought, "If Esau attacks one group, perhaps the other can escape."

New American Bible
“If Esau should come and attack one camp,” he reasoned, “the remaining camp may still escape.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other company that is left, shall escape.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other company that is left, shall escape.

Genesis 33:1-3 And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids. . . .

Matthew 10:16 Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

Context
Jacob's Fear of Esau
…7Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies, 8Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other company that is left, shall escape.9And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,

Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee.

Genesis 32:7
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