Genesis 32:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau; and now he is [on the way] to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Common English Bible

⁶ The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went out to your brother Esau, and he’s coming to meet you with four hundred men.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We went to your brother Esau, and behold, he rushes to meet you with four hundred men."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, and, behold, he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.

Genesis 32:6 Cross References

Genesis 31:18

and he drove away all his cattle, all his livestock which he had gained, the cattle in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.

Genesis 32:11

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:7

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

Genesis 32:8

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

Genesis 33:1

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

Genesis 33:15

So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the men who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Genesis 33:8

Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob answered, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Genesis 34:11

Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.

Genesis 47:25

And they said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh.”

Amos 5:19

as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned with his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Ruth 2:13

Then she said, “You are most gracious to me, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not one of your maidservants.”

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

1 Samuel 1:18

And she said, “Let your maidservant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her countenance was no longer sad.