and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
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and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
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And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
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(32-9) And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.'
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Passages linked to Genesis 32:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 33:1-3 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
- Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the…
Gen 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
Ver. 8. If Esau come, &c.] It is a point of prudence, if we cannot keep all, to save what we can.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Either by flight, or because he supposed Esau’s revenge…
Either by flight, or because he supposed Esau’s revenge would be satisfied with the first slaughter.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And said, if Esau come to the one company,…
And said, if Esau come to the one company, and smite it,.... The first, which perhaps consisted only of some servants, with a part of his cattle; so that if Esau should come in an hostile manner, and fall upon that, and slay the servants, and take the cattle as a booty:
then the other company which is left shall escape; by flight, in which most probably were he himself, his wives and children, and the camels to carry them off who would have notice by what should happen to the first band; but one would think, that, notwithstanding all this precaution and wise methods taken, there could be little expectation of escaping the hands of Esau, if he came out on such an ill design; for whither could they flee? or how could they hope to get out of the reach of four hundred men pursuing after them, unless it could be thought, or might be hoped, that the first company falling into his hands, and the revenge on them, and the plunder of them, would satiate him, and he would proceed no further? but Jacob did not trust to these methods he concerted, but betakes himself to God in prayer, as follows.
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