13. You yourself said, ‘I will be very good to you, and I will make your descendants like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’”
14. After passing the night there, Jacob selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:
15. two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes and twenty rams;
16. thirty female camels and their young; forty cows and ten bulls; twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
17. He put these animals in the care of his servants, in separate herds, and he told the servants, “Go on ahead of me, but keep some space between the herds.”
18. He ordered the servant in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? To whom do these animals ahead of you belong?’
19. tell him, ‘To your servant Jacob, but they have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. Jacob himself is right behind us.’”