Genesis 32:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on before 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 she-asses and ten he-asses.

Genesis 32:17

He instructed the foremost, “When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before 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 before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

Psalm 112:5

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.

Proverbs 2:11

discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;

Isaiah 28:26

For he is instructed aright; his God teaches him.

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

1 Samuel 25:19

And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.