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- Genesis
- Chapter 32
- Verse 5
And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
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Gill's Exposition
And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants,.... This he would have said, lest he should think he was come to ask anything of him, and put himself and his family upon him;…
- Jacob Wrestles in Prayer 3. מחנים machănāyı̂m, Machanaim, “two camps.” 22. יבק yaboq, Jabboq; related: בקק bāqaq “gush or gurgle out” or אבק 'ābaq in niphal, “wrestle.” Now Wady Zurka. 29.…
Now that Jacob was re-entering Canaan God, by the vision of angels, reminded him of the friends he had when he left it, and thence he takes occasion to remind himself of the enemies he had,…
Cambridge Bible
find grace Cf. Gen 18:3; Gen 33:8; Gen 33:15; Gen 34:11; Gen 47:25. Jacob hopes to be reconciled and desires to propitiate his brother. He has not forgotten his brother's threats (Gen 27:41).
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