7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,
8. Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.
9. And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee,
10. I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.
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.