11. Please rescue me from my brother. I am afraid he will come and attack not only me, but my wives and children as well.
12. But you have promised that I would be a success and that some day it will be as hard to count my descendants as it is to count the stars in the sky.
13. After Jacob had spent the night there, he chose some animals as gifts for Esau:
14-15. two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten males.
16. Jacob put servants in charge of each herd and told them, “Go ahead of me and keep a space between each herd.”