- When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
- In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
- He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape."
- Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'
- I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two groups.
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- 所打發的人回到雅各那裡說、我們到了你哥哥以掃那裡、他帶著四百人、正迎著你來。
- 雅各就甚懼怕、而且愁煩、便把那與他同在的人口、和羊群、牛群、駱駝、分作兩隊.
- 說、以掃若來擊殺這一隊、剩下的那一隊還可以逃避。
- 雅各說、耶和華我祖亞伯拉罕的 神、我父親以撒的 神阿、你曾對我說、回你本地本族去、我要厚待你。
- 你向僕人所施的一切慈愛和誠實、我一點也不配得.我先前只拿著我的杖過這約但河、如今我卻成了兩隊了。
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