15. thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16. These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.”
17. He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’
18. then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’”
19. He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him,
20. and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
21. So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22. The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.
24. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
25. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.
26. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”