Discovery BoxGenesis 32:16-17 
Context32:16 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
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?”
