Genesis 32:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He instructed the one in the lead, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’

Cross References

Genesis 32:16

These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between drove and drove.”

Genesis 32:18

then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau, and moreover he is behind us.’ ”

Genesis 33:3

He himself went on ahead of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his brother.