Genesis 32:14
He selected 200 female goats and 20 male goats, 200 female sheep and 20 male sheep,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
In Context
13Jacob slept there that night. The next morning he selected some animals to give to his brother Esau.
1530 female camels and their offspring, 40 cows and ten bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys.
Cross References
Genesis 31:9In that way, God has taken away the livestock that belonged to your father and has given them to me.
Genesis 33:11Please accept these gifts that I have brought to you, because God has acted kindly toward me, and I still have plenty of animals!” Jacob kept on urging him to accept the animals, and finally he accepted them.
Deuteronomy 8:18Do not forget that it is Yahweh our God who has enabled you to become rich. He does this because he faithfully does what he solemnly promised our ancestors that he would do.
Job 1:3He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 1,000 oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He also had many servants. He was the richest man in all the area east of the Jordan River.
Proverbs 17:8People think that a bribe is like a magic stone to persuade someone to do what they want him to do; they think that because of the bribe, that person will do whatever they want him to do.
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 →