Genesis 32:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between drove and drove.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And he put them into the charge of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Pass over before me and put a space between drove and drove.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He separated these herds and gave them to his servants. He said to them, “Go ahead of me and put some distance between each of the herds.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And he sent them by the hands of his servants, each flock separately, and he said to his servants: "Pass before me, and let there be a space between flock and flock."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.

Genesis 32:16 Cross References

Genesis 32:15

thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 32:17

He instructed the one in the lead, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’

Genesis 32:20

and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

Psalm 112:5

It is well with those who deal generously and lend, who conduct their affairs with justice.

Proverbs 2:11

prudence will watch over you, and understanding will guard you.

Isaiah 28:26

For they are well instructed; their God teaches them.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

1 Samuel 25:19

and said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.