Trouvé 435 Résultats pour: Jacob and Esau

• while Jacob continued on his own way. Then God's messengers encountered Jacob. (Genesis 32, 2)

• Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, (Genesis 32, 4)

• with this message: "Thus shall you say to my lord Esau: 'Your servant Jacob speaks as follows: I have been staying with Laban and have been detained there until now. (Genesis 32, 5)

• When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We reached your brother Esau. He is now coming to meet you, accompanied by four hundred men." (Genesis 32, 7)

• Jacob was very much frightened. In his anxiety, he divided the people who were with him, as well as his flocks, herds and camels, into two camps. (Genesis 32, 8)

• "If Esau should attack and overwhelm one camp," he reasoned, "the remaining camp may still survive." (Genesis 32, 9)

• Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau! Otherwise I fear that when he comes he will strike me down and slay the mothers and children. (Genesis 32, 12)

• After passing the night there, Jacob selected from what he had with him the following presents for his brother Esau: (Genesis 32, 14)

• To the servant in the lead he gave this instruction: "When my brother Esau meets you, he may ask you, 'Whose man are you? Where are you going? To whom do these animals ahead of you belong?' (Genesis 32, 18)

• Then you shall answer, 'They belong to your brother Jacob, but they have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau; and Jacob himself is right behind us.'" (Genesis 32, 19)

• He gave similar instructions to the second servant and the third and to all the others who followed behind the droves, namely: "Thus and thus shall you say to Esau, when you reach him; (Genesis 32, 20)

• and be sure to add, 'Your servant Jacob is right behind us.'" For Jacob reasoned, "If I first appease him with gifts that precede me, then later, when I face him, perhaps he will forgive me." (Genesis 32, 21)