Genesis 32:13-23
13So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took aa present for his brother Esau, 14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.” 17He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ 18then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’” 19He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him ▼▼Hebrew appease his face
with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.” ▼▼Hebrew he will lift my face
21So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. Jacob Wrestles with God
22The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, ▼▼Or sons
and crossed the ford of the eJabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.
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