8Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.
8Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.
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.
32:8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
32:8He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape."
32:8and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
32:8And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape.
32:8and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
32:8And said, If Esau shall come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, will escape.
32:8and he said, |If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.|
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.'
32:8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.