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When he saw them, he said, “This is God's camp”; so he named the place Mahanaim.[a]

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the country of Edom. He instructed them to say: “I, Jacob, your obedient servant, report to my master Esau that I have been staying with Laban and that I have delayed my return until now.

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  1. Genesis 32:2 This name in Hebrew means “two camps.”

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