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Genesis 32:15-17
New English Translation

15 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, and 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys. 16 He entrusted them to[a] his servants, who divided them into herds.[b] He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.” 17 He instructed the servant leading the first herd,[c] “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong?[d] Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:16 tn Heb “and he put them in the hand of.”
  2. Genesis 32:16 tn Heb “a herd, a herd, by itself,” or “each herd by itself.” The distributive sense is expressed by repetition.
  3. Genesis 32:17 tn Heb “the first”; this has been specified as “the servant leading the first herd” in the translation for clarity.
  4. Genesis 32:17 tn Heb “to whom are you?”
  5. Genesis 32:17 tn Heb “and to whom are these before you?”
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