8. and said, If Esau comes to the one company and smites it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
9. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said unto me, Return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.
10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy slave; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands.
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 smite me and the mother with the children.
12. And thou hast said, I will surely do thee good and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13. And he lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother:
14. two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred sheep and twenty rams,
15. thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
16. And he delivered them into the hand of his slaves, every drove by themselves and said unto his slaves, Pass before me and put a space between drove and drove.