8Esau said, |What do you mean by all this company which I met?| Jacob said, |To find favor in the sight of my lord.|


In Context

5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, |Who are these with you?| He said, |The children whom God has graciously given your servant.|

6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

8 Esau said, |What do you mean by all this company which I met?| Jacob said, |To find favor in the sight of my lord.|

9 Esau said, |I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.|

10 Jacob said, |Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Genesis 33:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

33:8And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my lord.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

33:8Esau asked, "What do you mean by all these droves I met?" "To find favor in your eyes, my lord," he said.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

33:8And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favor before my lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

33:8And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

33:8And he said, What meanest thou by all the drove which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

33:8And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find grace in the sight of my lord.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

33:8And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, these are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

33:8And he saith, 'What to thee is all this camp which I have met?' and he saith, 'To find grace in the eyes of my lord.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

33:8And he said, What mean you by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.