Ford of the Jabbok

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• GEN 32:13–23, engwebp

  ¹³He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:

  ¹⁴two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

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

  ¹⁶He 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.”

  ¹⁷He 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?’

  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.’”

  ¹⁹He 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.

  ²⁰You 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.”

  ²¹So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

  ²²He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

  ²³He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

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