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Genesis 32

Genesis 32:19

He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

  • KJV King James Version

    And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    (32-20) And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him;

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And so commanded he the second and third,.... Those…

And so commanded he the second and third,.... Those who had the care of the second and third droves, he ordered them to say the same things, and in the same words as he had the first:

and all that followed the droves; either all that were with the principal driver; that if any of them should happen to be interrogated first, they might know what to answer; or those that followed the other droves, besides the three mentioned, which countenances Aben Ezra's notion of five droves, before observed:

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saying, on this manner shall you speak to Esau, when you find him; that is, when they met him and perceived it was he that put questions to them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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