Genesis 32:8
World English Bible (WEB)
He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
In context
6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies.
8 He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Genesis 32:8 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
- KJV King James Version
- And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and saith, 'If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it — then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And said, If Esau shall come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, will escape.