When Jacob saw them, he said, ‘This is the camp of God!’ So he named that place Mahanaim.[a]

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. He instructed them: ‘This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: “Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:2 Mahanaim means two camps.