Genesis 33:12
New International Version
Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”

New Living Translation
“Well,” Esau said, “let’s be going. I will lead the way.”

English Standard Version
Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”

Berean Standard Bible
Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”

King James Bible
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

New King James Version
Then Esau said, “Let us take our journey; let us go, and I will go before you.”

New American Standard Bible
Then Esau said, “Let’s journey on and go, and I will go ahead of you.”

NASB 1995
Then Esau said, “Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you.”

NASB 1977
Then Esau said, “Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Esau said, “Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you.”

Amplified Bible
Then Esau said, “Let us get started on our journey and I will go in front of you [to lead the way].”

Christian Standard Bible
Then Esau said, “Let’s move on, and I’ll go ahead of you.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Esau said, “Let’s move on, and I’ll go ahead of you.”

American Standard Version
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Esau said to him, “We will pick up and we will go, and I shall go before you.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he said, Let us depart, and proceed right onward.

Contemporary English Version
"Let's get ready to travel," Esau said. "I'll go along with you."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey.

English Revised Version
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Esau said, "Let's get ready to go, and I'll go with you."

Good News Translation
Esau said, "Let's get ready and leave. I will go ahead of you."

International Standard Version
Then Esau suggested, "Let's set out and travel together, but let me go in front of you."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he said: 'Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.'

Literal Standard Version
and says, “Let us journey and go on, and I go on before you.”

Majority Standard Bible
Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”

New American Bible
Then Esau said, “Let us break camp and be on our way; I will travel in front of you.”

NET Bible
Then Esau said, "Let's be on our way! I will go in front of you."

New Revised Standard Version
Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go alongside you.”

New Heart English Bible
Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go ahead of you."

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

World English Bible
Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”

Young's Literal Translation
and saith, 'Let us journey and go on, and I go on before thee.'

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Context
Jacob Meets Esau
11Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted. 12Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.” 13But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.…

Cross References
Genesis 33:11
Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need." So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.

Genesis 33:13
But Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.


Treasury of Scripture

And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.

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Genesis 33
1. Jacob and Esau's meeting; and Esau's departure.
17. Jacob comes to Succoth.
18. At Shechem he buys a field, and builds an altar, called El Elohe Israel.














Verse 12. - And he (i.e. Esau) said (in further token of his amity), Let us take our journey, and let us go, - but whether he intended to accompany Jacob on his way (Keil, Kalisch, et alii) or invited Jacob to go with him to Mount Seir (Ainsworth, Clericus) is uncertain. On the first hypothesis it is difficult to explain how Esau came to be traveling in the same direction as his brother, while the adoption of the second will serve in some measure to elucidate Jacob's language in ver. 2. But whichever way the words of Esau are understood, they amounted to an offer to be an escort to Jacob through the desert regions with which his excursions had made him familiar, since he added, and I will go before thee - i.e. to lead the way.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then Esau said,
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Let us be on our way,
נִסְעָ֣ה (nis·‘āh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 5265: To pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey

and I will go
וְאֵלְכָ֖ה (wə·’ê·lə·ḵāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

ahead of you.”
לְנֶגְדֶּֽךָ׃ (lə·neḡ·de·ḵā)
Preposition-l | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before


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