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When Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s encampment.” So he named that place Mahanaim.[a]

Envoys to Esau. Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,(A) ordering them: “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob: I have been residing with Laban and have been delayed until now.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:3 Mahanaim: a town in Gilead (Jos 13:26, 30; 21:38; 2 Sm 2:8; etc.). The Hebrew name means “two camps.” There are other allusions to the name in vv. 8, 11.