Genesis 32:21

So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.

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In The King James Version

So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

In Context

20And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

22And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

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Cross References

Genesis 43:11\43:12\And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

1 Samuel 25:19And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

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 →

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