Genesis 32:6

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When the messengers came back to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you with 400 men.”

Cross References

Genesis 31:18

He drove all his livestock ahead of him and took all the possessions that he had accumulated. He took his own livestock that he had accumulated in Paddan Aram and went back to his father Isaac in Canaan.

Genesis 32:11

Please save me from my brother Esau, because I’m afraid of him. I’m afraid that he’ll come and attack me and the mothers and children too.

Genesis 32:7

Jacob was terrified and distressed. So he divided the people, the sheep and goats, the cattle, and the camels into two camps.

Genesis 32:8

He thought, “If Esau attacks the one camp, then the other camp will be able to escape.”

Genesis 33:1

Jacob saw Esau coming with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slaves.

Genesis 33:15

Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.” “Why do that?” Jacob asked. “I only want to win your favor, sir.”

Genesis 33:8

Then Esau asked, “Why did you send this whole group ⌞of people and animals⌟ I met?” He answered, “To win your favor, sir.”

Genesis 34:11

Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and her brothers, “Do me this favor. I’ll give you whatever you ask.

Genesis 47:25

“You have saved our lives,” they said. “Please, sir, we are willing to be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Amos 5:19

It is like a person who flees from a lion only to be attacked by a bear. It is like a person who goes home and puts his hand on the wall only to be bitten by a snake.

Ruth 2:13

Ruth replied, “Sir, may your kindness to me continue. You have comforted me and reassured me, and I’m not even one of your own servants.”

Ruth 2:2

Ruth, who was from Moab, said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field of anyone who will be kind to me. There I will gather the grain left behind by the reapers.” Naomi told her, “Go, my daughter.”

1 Samuel 1:18

“May you continue to be kind to me,” she said. Then the woman went her way and ate. She was no longer sad.