Genesis 32:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, ‘Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.’

Cross References

Matthew 10:16

‘Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Isaiah 28:26

His God teaches him order; he instructs him.

Proverbs 2:11

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

Genesis 32:20

You are also to say, “Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.” ’ For he thought, ‘I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.’

Genesis 32:15

thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 32:17

And he told the first one, ‘When my brother Esau meets you and asks, “Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? ”

1 Samuel 25:19

Then she said to her male servants, ‘Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.’  But she did not tell her husband, Nabal.