MLV(i)
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus you* will say to my lord Esau, Thus says your servant Jacob, I have traveled with Laban and stayed until now.
5 And I have oxen and donkeys, flocks and men-servants and maid-servants. And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau and moreover he comes to meet you and four hundred men with him. 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies. 8 And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and slays it, then the company which is left will escape.
9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred and I will do good things with you, 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant, because with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I have become two companies.
11 I beseech you, deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he comes and slays me, the mother with the sons. 12 And you said, I will surely do you good and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that night and took of what he had with him a present for Esau his brother: 14 two hundred female-goats and twenty male-goats, two hundred ewe-lambs and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female-donkeys and ten foals.
16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every herd by itself and said to his servants, Pass over before me and put a space between herd and herd. 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, Whose are you? And where do you go? And whose are these before you? 18 Then you will say, Your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.
19 And he commanded also the second and the third and all who followed the herds, saying, On this manner will you* speak to Esau when you* find him, 20 and you* will say, Moreover, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me. 21 So the present passed over before him and he himself lodged that night in the company.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau and moreover he comes to meet you and four hundred men with him. 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies. 8 And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and slays it, then the company which is left will escape.
9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred and I will do good things with you, 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant, because with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I have become two companies.
11 I beseech you, deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he comes and slays me, the mother with the sons. 12 And you said, I will surely do you good and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that night and took of what he had with him a present for Esau his brother: 14 two hundred female-goats and twenty male-goats, two hundred ewe-lambs and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female-donkeys and ten foals.
16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every herd by itself and said to his servants, Pass over before me and put a space between herd and herd. 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, Whose are you? And where do you go? And whose are these before you? 18 Then you will say, Your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.
19 And he commanded also the second and the third and all who followed the herds, saying, On this manner will you* speak to Esau when you* find him, 20 and you* will say, Moreover, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me. 21 So the present passed over before him and he himself lodged that night in the company.