8. And he thought, “If Esau comes to one company and destroys it, the remaining company will be able to escape.”
9. Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.’
10. I am not worthy of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
11. Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children alike.
12. Now you yourself said, ‘I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring as the sand of the sea that cannot be counted for abundance.’ ”
13. And he lodged there that night. Then he took from what he had with him a gift for Esau his brother:
14. two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams,
15. thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.