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1 Iacob quoque abiit itinere quo coeperat fueruntque ei obviam angeli Dei
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Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 quos cum vidisset ait castra Dei sunt haec et appellavit nomen loci illius Manaim id est Castra
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When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
3 misit autem et nuntios ante se ad Esau fratrem suum in terram Seir regionis Edom
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Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
4 praecepitque eis dicens sic loquimini domino meo Esau haec dicit frater tuus Iacob apud Laban peregrinatus sum et fui usque in praesentem diem
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He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.
5 habeo boves et asinos oves et servos atque ancillas mittoque nunc legationem ad dominum meum ut inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo
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I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’ ”
6 reversi sunt nuntii ad Iacob dicentes venimus ad Esau fratrem tuum et ecce properat in occursum tibi cum quadringentis viris
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When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
7 timuit Iacob valde et perterritus divisit populum qui secum erat greges quoque et oves et boves et camelos in duas turmas
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In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
8 dicens si venerit Esau ad unam turmam et percusserit eam alia turma quae reliqua est salvabitur
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He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”
9 dixitque Iacob Deus patris mei Abraham et Deus patris mei Isaac Domine qui dixisti mihi revertere in terram tuam et in locum nativitatis tuae et benefaciam tibi
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Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’
10 minor sum cunctis miserationibus et veritate quam explesti servo tuo in baculo meo transivi Iordanem istum et nunc cum duabus turmis regredior
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I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
11 erue me de manu fratris mei de manu Esau quia valde eum timeo ne forte veniens percutiat matrem cum filiis
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Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
12 tu locutus es quod bene mihi faceres et dilatares semen meum sicut harenam maris quae prae multitudine numerari non potest
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But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’ ”
13 cumque dormisset ibi nocte illa separavit de his quae habebat munera Esau fratri suo
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He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
14 capras ducentas hircos viginti oves ducentas arietes viginti
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two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 camelos fetas cum pullis suis triginta vaccas quadraginta et tauros viginti asinas viginti et pullos earum decem
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thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16 et misit per manus servorum suorum singulos seorsum greges dixitque pueris suis antecedite me et sit spatium inter gregem et gregem
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He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”
17 et praecepit priori dicens si obvium habueris Esau fratrem meum et interrogaverit te cuius es et quo vadis et cuius sunt ista quae sequeris
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He instructed the one in the lead: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’
18 respondebis servi tui Iacob munera misit domino meo Esau ipse quoque post nos venit
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then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’ ”
19 similiter mandata dedit secundo ac tertio et cunctis qui sequebantur greges dicens hisdem verbis loquimini ad Esau cum inveneritis eum
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He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
20 et addetis ipse quoque servus tuus Iacob iter nostrum insequitur dixit enim placabo illum muneribus quae praecedunt et postea videbo forsitan propitiabitur mihi
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And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”
21 praecesserunt itaque munera ante eum ipse vero mansit nocte illa in Castris
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So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.
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