Verse 17
Genesis 32:17
Young's Literal Translation
17
And he commandeth the first, saying, 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and hath asked thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּתֵּן֙ בְּ/יַד עֲבָדָ֔י/ו עֵ֥דֶר עֵ֖דֶר לְ/בַדּ֑/וֹ וַ֤/יֹּאמֶר אֶל עֲבָדָי/ו֙ עִבְר֣וּ לְ/פָנַ֔/י וְ/רֶ֣וַח תָּשִׂ֔ימוּ בֵּ֥ין עֵ֖דֶר וּ/בֵ֥ין עֵֽדֶר
English Translation
And he gave into the hand of his servants a flock alone, and he said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a gap between flock and flock."
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Chapter 32 Context
1
And Jacob hath gone on his way, and messengers of God (Elohim) come upon him;
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and Jacob saith, when he hath seen them, 'This [is] the camp of God (Elohim);' and he calleth the na...
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And Jacob sendeth messengers before him unto Esau his brother, towards the land of Seir, the field o...
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and commandeth them, saying, 'Thus do ye say to my lord, to Esau: Thus said thy servant Jacob, With...
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and I have ox, and ass, flock, and man-servant, and maid-servant, and I send to declare to my lord,...
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And the messengers turn back unto Jacob, saying, 'We came in unto thy brother, unto Esau, and he als...
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and Jacob feareth exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divideth the people who [are] with him, and...
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and saith, 'If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it -- then the camp which is left ha...
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And Jacob saith, 'God (Elohim) of my father Abraham, and God (Elohim) of my father Isaac, Jehovah wh...
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I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servan...
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'Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him,...
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and Thou -- Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the...
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And he lodgeth there during that night, and taketh from that which is coming into his hand, a presen...
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she-goats two hundred, and he-goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty,
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suckling camels and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bullocks ten, she-asses twenty, and foa...
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and he giveth into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and saith unto his servants, 'Pa...
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And he commandeth the first, saying, 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and hath asked thee, saying...
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then thou hast said, Thy servant Jacob's: it [is] a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and lo, he als...
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And he commandeth also the second, also the third, also all who are going after the droves, saying,...
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and ye have said also, Lo, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us;' for he said, 'I pacify his face with t...
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and the present passeth over before his face, and he hath lodged during that night in the camp.
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And he riseth in that night, and taketh his two wives, and his two maid-servants, and his eleven chi...
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and he taketh them, and causeth them to pass over the brook, and he causeth that which he hath to pa...
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And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn;
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and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hol...
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and he saith, 'Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, 'I send thee not away, excep...
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And he saith unto him, 'What [is] thy name?' and he saith, 'Jacob.'
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And he saith, 'Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God (E...
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And Jacob asketh, and saith, 'Declare, I pray thee, thy name;' and he saith, 'Why [is] this, thou as...
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And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for 'I have seen God (Elohim) face unto face, and my...
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and the sun riseth on him when he hath passed over Penuel, and he is halting on his thigh;
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therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which [is] on the hollow of the thig...
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