Genesis 32:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ thinking, “If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company that is left will escape.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ and said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Thinking, If Esau comes to the one group and smites it, then the other group which is left will escape.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.

Common English Bible

⁸ He thought, If Esau meets the first camp and attacks it, at least one camp will be left to escape.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ saying: "If Esau goes to one company, and strikes it, the other company, which is left behind, will be saved."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.

Genesis 32:8 Cross References

Genesis 32:7

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and herds and camels into two companies,

Genesis 32:9

And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’

Matthew 10:16

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