Genesis 32:1-15 ▼

1 And Jacob went on his way and the messengers of God met with him.

2 And Jacob will say when seeing them, This the camp of God: and he will call the name of that place the camps.

3 And Jacob will send messengers before his face to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Adam.

4 And he will command them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord to Esau, Thus thy servant Jacob said, With Laban I sojourned and lingered till now.

5 And there will be to me ox and ass, sheep and servant, and maid; and I shall send to announce to my lord to find grace in thine eyes.

6 And the messengers will turn back to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau, and also he came to thy meeting, and four hundred men with him.

7 And Jacob will be greatly afraid and it will press upon him: and he will divide the people which were with him, and the sheep and the oxen, and the camels, into two camps.

8 And he will say, If Esau shall come to the one camp and smite it, and the remaining camp was to escape.

9 And Jacob will say, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaak, Jehovah having said to me, Turn back to thy land and to thy family, and I will do well with thee.

10 I was little from all the kindness and from all the truth which thou didst to thy servant; for with my rod I passed over this Jordan, and now I became into two camps.

11 Take me away now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he shall come and smite me, the mother upon the sons.

12 And thou saidst, Doing well I will do well with thee, and I set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be counted for multitude.

13 And he will pass the night them in that night, and he will take from what came into his hand, a gift to Esau his brother.

14 Two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred sheep and twenty rams.

15 Camels giving suck, and their young, thirty; forty heifers and ten bulls; twenty she-asses and ten foals.