Genesis 32:21
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.
20 You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.
22 During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23 He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
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
- So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.
- KJV
- So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
- WEB
- So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
- ASV
- So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.
- DARBY
- And the gift went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
- BLB
- And the gift passed over before his face, and he lodged that night in the camp.
- ÅB
- Så dro de i forveien med gaven; men selv ble han i leiren den natt.
- OTB
- Så Jakobs gaver gikk foran ham, mens han ble i leiren den natten.
- B1930
- Så drog de i forveien med gaven; men selv blev han i leiren den natt.