![]() ( AB)’”ġ3 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift ( AC) for his brother Esau: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ( AD) 15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. ( Z) 12 But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand ( AA) of the sea, which cannot be counted. ( W) 11 Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid ( X) he will come and attack me, ( Y) and also the mothers with their children. I had only my staff ( V) when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. 8 He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”ĩ Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, ( R) God of my father Isaac, ( S) Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’ ( T) 10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness ( U) you have shown your servant. ( M)’”Ħ When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” ( N)ħ In great fear ( O) and distress ( P) Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, ( Q) and the flocks and herds and camels as well. ( K) Now I am sending this message to my lord, ( L) that I may find favor in your eyes. ![]() 5 I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. ( G) 4 He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord ( H) Esau: ‘Your servant ( I) Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban ( J) and have remained there till now. ( C)ģ Jacob sent messengers ( D) ahead of him to his brother Esau ( E) in the land of Seir, ( F) the country of Edom. 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” ( B) So he named that place Mahanaim. 32 Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God ( A) met him.
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