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Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and furthermore (A)he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” Then Jacob was (B)greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two camps. And he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp which remains will escape.”

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When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”(A)

In great fear(B) and distress(C) Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,[a](D) and the flocks and herds and camels as well. He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group,[b] the group[c] that is left may escape.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:7 Or camps
  2. Genesis 32:8 Or camp
  3. Genesis 32:8 Or camp