13. He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:
14. 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,
15. 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
16. He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”
17. And he told the first one: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? ’
18. then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’ ”
19. He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.
20. You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”
21. So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.
22. During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.
23. He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
24. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.