Genesis 32:4-14

4 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 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 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 In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,[a] and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
8 He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group,[b] the group[c] that is left may escape.”
9 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 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 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 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 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Cross References 23

  • 1. S Genesis 24:9
  • 2. S Genesis 18:3
  • 3. Genesis 31:41
  • 4. S Genesis 12:16; Genesis 30:43
  • 5. S Genesis 24:9
  • 6. Ge 33:8,10,15; Genesis 34:11; Genesis 47:25,29; Genesis 50:4; Ruth 2:13
  • 7. Genesis 33:1
  • 8. ver 11
  • 9. Genesis 35:3; Psalms 4:1; Psalms 77:2; Psalms 107:6
  • 10. ver 10; Genesis 33:1
  • 11. S Genesis 24:12
  • 12. S Genesis 28:13; Genesis 31:42
  • 13. S Genesis 26:3; Genesis 31:13
  • 14. S Genesis 24:27
  • 15. Genesis 38:18; Genesis 47:31; Numbers 17:2
  • 16. S ver 7
  • 17. S ver 7
  • 18. Genesis 43:18; Psalms 59:2
  • 19. S Genesis 27:41
  • 20. S Genesis 22:17; 1 Kings 4:20,29
  • 21. S Genesis 12:2; S Genesis 13:14; Genesis 28:13-15; Hosea 1:10; Romans 9:27
  • 22. ver 13-15,18,20,21; Genesis 33:10; Genesis 43:11,15,25,26; 1 Samuel 16:20; Proverbs 18:16; Proverbs 21:14
  • 23. Numbers 7:88

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