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


In Context

5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'|

6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, |We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.|

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

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

9 Jacob said, |God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'

10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

32:8Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall 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 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.