Genesis 32:22
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the company.
23And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
Cross References
Genesis 29:21And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.
Genesis 35:22And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Deuteronomy 3:16And I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,
1 Timothy 5:8But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially those belonging his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:14-24
Jacob's Present to Esau. ( b. c. 1739.) 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he… Read the whole commentary →