11. Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.
12. Thou didst say that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for the multitude.
13. And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau.
14. Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15. Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals.
16. And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.
17. And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee?