A moment in scripture
Genesis 32:16
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
The surrounding passage
- Genesis 32:14
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
- Genesis 32:15
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
- Genesis 32:17
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
- Genesis 32:18
Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.