rsv Genesis:32:3-23
rsv@Genesis:32:3 @ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Se'ir, the country of Edom,
rsv@Genesis:32:4 @ instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, `I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;
rsv@Genesis:32:5 @ and I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'"
rsv@Genesis:32:6 @ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
rsv@Genesis:32:7 @ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,
rsv@Genesis:32:8 @ thinking, "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company which is left will escape."
rsv@Genesis:32:9 @ And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who didst say to me, `Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,'
rsv@Genesis:32:10 @ I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
rsv@Genesis:32:11 @ Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.
rsv@Genesis:32:12 @ But thou didst say, `I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"
rsv@Genesis:32:13 @ So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,
rsv@Genesis:32:14 @ two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
rsv@Genesis:32:15 @ thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses.
rsv@Genesis:32:16 @ These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove."
rsv@Genesis:32:17 @ He instructed the foremost, "When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, `To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before you?'
rsv@Genesis:32:18 @ then you shall say, `They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.'"
rsv@Genesis:32:19 @ He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,
rsv@Genesis:32:20 @ and you shall say, `Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me."
rsv@Genesis:32:21 @ So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
rsv@Genesis:32:22 @ The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
rsv@Genesis:32:23 @ He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
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