17. He 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?’
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.’”
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 find him,
20. and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
21. So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22. The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.