Jacob Fears Esau
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Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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And when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's 1camp!" So he called the name of that place 2Mahanaim.a
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And Jacob sentb messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of 3Seir, the country of Edom,
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instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, 'I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now.
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I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that 4I may find favor in your sight.'"
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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and 5he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him."
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Then Jacob was 6greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,
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thinking, "If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape."
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And Jacob said, 7"O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who 8said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,'
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9I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for 10I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.
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But 11you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"
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So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took 12a present for his brother Esau,
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two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
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These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove."
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He instructed the first, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?'
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then you shall say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.'"
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He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him,
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and you shall say, 'Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease himc with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."d
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So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA
Gênesis 32:1
Jacó também seguiu o seu caminho; e encontraram-no os anjos de Deus.
King James Version KJV
New King James Version NKJV
Genesis 32:1
So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Nova Versão Internacional NVIP
Gênesis 32:1
Jacó também seguiu o seu caminho, e anjos de Deus vieram ao encontro dele.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)