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## Genesis 32:6-11 in Context (Verses 3–14 KJV)
 
 [3 ](/kjv/genesis/32/3) And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.*
 
 [4 ](/kjv/genesis/32/4) And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
 
 [5 ](/kjv/genesis/32/5) 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.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/genesis/32/6) ¶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/genesis/32/7) Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that *was* with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
 
 [8 ](/kjv/genesis/32/8) And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/genesis/32/9) ¶ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
 
 [10 ](/kjv/genesis/32/10) I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/genesis/32/11) Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, *and* the mother with the children.*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/genesis/32/12) And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/genesis/32/13) ¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
 
 [14 ](/kjv/genesis/32/14) Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
 
[Genesis 31](/kjv/genesis/31) [Genesis 33](/kjv/genesis/33)

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