Genesis 32:16-17

32:16 He entrusted them to ¹  his servants, who divided them into herds. ²  He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.” 32:17 He instructed the servant leading the first herd, ³  “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? ⁴  Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’ ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “and he put them in the hand of.”

² tn Heb “a herd, a herd, by itself,” or “each herd by itself.” The distributive sense is expressed by repetition.

³ tn Heb “the first”; this has been specified as “the servant leading the first herd” in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “to whom are you?”

⁵ tn Heb “and to whom are these before you?”