18. then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’ ”
19. He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
20. And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”
21. So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.
22. That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.