18Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'|


In Context

15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, |Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.|

17 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?'

18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'|

19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, |This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'| For, he said, |I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.|

Genesis 32:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:18Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob’s; it [is] a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

32:18then you are to say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.' "

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

32:18Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau: and he cometh after us.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

32:18then thou shalt say They are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:18then thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob's: it is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

32:18then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:18Then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob's: it is a present sent to my lord Esau: and behold also he is behind us.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

32:18then thou hast said, Thy servant Jacob's: it is a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and lo, he also is behind us.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:18Then you shall say, They be your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.