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13 Jacob stayed there that night. Then he prepared a gift for his brother Esau from what he had brought with him:
14 There were two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred female sheep and twenty male sheep,
15 also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16 He placed servants in charge of each herd. He said to his servants: »Go ahead of me, and maintain a distance between the herds.«
17 He commanded the first servant: »When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and whose animals are these ahead of you?’
18 »Say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. This is a gift sent to you. Jacob is directly behind us.’«
19 He also commanded the second servant, the third, and all the others who followed the herds. He said: »Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.
20 »Be sure to say, ‘Jacob is right behind us.’« He thought: »I will make peace with him by giving him this gift that I am sending ahead of me. After that, I will see him, and he will welcome me back.«