8Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.


In Context

5 I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight.

6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,

8 Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.

9 And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee,

10 I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

Genesis 32:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

32:8He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

32:8and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:8And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

32:8and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:8And said, If Esau shall come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, will escape.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:8and he said, |If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

32:8and saith, 'If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it — then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.