Genesis 32:22

And 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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In The King James Version

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

In Context

21So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.

23He took them and sent them over the stream with all he had.

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Cross References

Genesis 29:21Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

Genesis 35:22Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

Deuteronomy 3:16And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;

1 Timothy 5:8If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

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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