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Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children.
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For You said, 'I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' "
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So he lodged there that same night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother:
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two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
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Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves."
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And he commanded the first one, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?'
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then you shall say, 'They are your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.' "
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So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, "In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;
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and also say, 'Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.' " For he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me."
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So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.