8. And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape.
9. And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who saidst unto me: Return into thy country and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good,
10. --I am too small for all the loving-kindness and all the faithfulness that thou hast shewn unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two troops.
11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
12. And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13. And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother--
14. two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;
15. thirty milch camels with their colts; forty kine, and ten bulls; twenty she-asses, and ten young asses.
16. And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.