Genesis 33:8
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
In context
6 Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
7 Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
8 “What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
9 “I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
10 But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
Genesis 33:8 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
- KJV King James Version
- And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
- WEB World English Bible
- Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And he saith, 'What to thee [is] all this camp which I have met?' and he saith, 'To find grace in the eyes of my lord.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said, What [meanest] thou by all the drove which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, these are to find grace in the sight of my lord.