New American Standard Bible

Genesis 32:13-19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

13. So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

14. two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

15. thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

16. He delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between droves."

17. He commanded the one in front, saying, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?'

18. then you shall say, 'These belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.'"

19. Then he commanded also the second and the third, and all those who followed the droves, saying, "After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;