Genesis 32:17
15 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
16 He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”
He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
18 then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
19 He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
- KJV
- And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
- WEB
- He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’
- ASV
- And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
- DARBY
- And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets thee, and asks thee, saying, Whose art thou, and where goest thou, and whose are these before thee?
- BLB
- And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom [are] you? And where are you going? And to whom [are] these before you?’
- ÅB
- Og han befalte den første og sa: Når min bror Esau møter deg og han taler til deg og spør: Hvem hører du til, og hvor skal du hen, og hvem eier denne flokk som du driver foran deg?
- OTB
- Han instruerte den som ledet: “Når min bror Esau møter deg og spør: ‘Hvem tilhører du, og hvor skal du, og hvem eier alle disse dyrene foran deg?’
- B1930
- Og han bød den første og sa: Når min bror Esau møter dig og han taler til dig og spør: Hvem hører du til, og hvor skal du hen, og hvem eier denne hjord som du driver foran dig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 33:3
But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
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