Genesis 32:8 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 32:8

He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.

KJV

And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
יָב֥וֹא	ya.Vo'	he will come	H935 →
עֵשָׂ֛ו	'e.Sav	Esau	H6215 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמַּחֲנֶ֥ה	ha.ma.cha.Neh	the camp	H4264 →
הָאַחַ֖ת	ha.'a.Chat	<the> one	H259 →
וְהִכָּ֑הוּ	ve.hi.Ka.hu	and he will attack it	H5221 →
וְהָיָ֛ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will become	H1961 →
הַמַּחֲנֶ֥ה	ha.ma.cha.Neh	the camp	H4264 →
הַנִּשְׁאָ֖ר	ha.nish.'Ar	which remains	H7604 →
לִפְלֵיטָֽה׃	lif.lei.Tah	<into> an escaped remnant	H6413 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
leads to
- Philippians 2:15
  so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- Luke 10:3
  Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20
  Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
- Colossians 4:5
  Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
- Ephesians 5:15–17
  Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,