Genesis 32:6

New Century Version

The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

Cross References

Genesis 31:18

and they began their journey back to Isaac, his father, in the land of Canaan. All the flocks of animals that Jacob owned walked ahead of them. He carried everything with him that he had gotten while he lived in Northwest Mesopotamia.

Genesis 32:11

Please save me from my brother Esau. I am afraid he will come and kill all of us, even the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:7

Then Jacob was very afraid and worried. He divided the people who were with him and all the flocks, herds, and camels into two camps.

Genesis 32:8

Jacob thought, “Esau might come and destroy one camp, but the other camp can run away and be saved.”

Genesis 33:1

Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and with him were four hundred men. So Jacob divided his children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave girls.

Genesis 33:15

So Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my people with you.” “No, thank you,” said Jacob. “I only want to please you, my master.”

Genesis 33:8

Esau said, “I saw many herds as I was coming here. Why did you bring them?” Jacob answered, “They were to please you, my master.”

Genesis 34:11

Shechem also talked to Jacob and to Dinah’s brothers and said, “Please accept my offer. I will give anything you ask.

Genesis 47:25

The people said, “You have saved our lives. If you like, we will become slaves of the king.”

Amos 5:19

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear, or like someone who goes into his house and puts his hand on the wall, and then is bitten by a snake.

Ruth 2:13

Then Ruth said, “I hope I can continue to please you, sir. You have said kind and encouraging words to me, your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”

Ruth 2:2

One day Ruth, the Moabite, said to Naomi, “I am going to the fields. Maybe someone will be kind enough to let me gather the grain he leaves behind.” Naomi said, “Go, my daughter.”

1 Samuel 1:18

Hannah said, “May I always please you.” When she left and ate something, she was not sad anymore.