And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Psalm 78:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, In the field of Zoan. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Marvelous things did He in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided]. American Standard Version (1901) Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. Common English Bible But God performed wonders in their ancestors’ presence— in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. Catholic Public Domain Version And repay our neighbors sevenfold within their sinews. It is the reproach of the same ones who brought reproach against you, O Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. |
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
and shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them; and didst get thee a name, as it is this day.
He sent signs and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, Upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner stone of her tribes.
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgements in No.
And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
and the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes:
And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,