3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, in the region of Edom,

4 And he commanded them, saying, 'Thus say to my lord Esau, 'This is what your servant Jacob says: I have dwelt with Laban, and have lived to this day;

5 And I have oxen, and asses, and flocks, and male and female handmaids; and I sent to make known myself to my lord [Esau], that I might gain favor in your eyes.

6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, and said, 'We have gone to your brother Esau; He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.

7 Jacob was very frightened and troubled; And he divided the men who were with him, both the flocks and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.

8 And he said, 'If Esau attacks one camp and smites it, the rest of the camp may be saved.'

9 And Jacob said, 'O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord [God], who said unto me, Return unto thy land, to thy native land, and I will do good unto thee.

10 I am not worthy of all the mercies and all the good deeds which thou hast done unto thy servant, for I have crossed this Jordan with my staff, and now I have two camps.

11 Deliver me out of the hand of my brother, the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and kill me and my mother and children.

12 Thou hast said, 'I will do good to thee, and I will make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is innumerable out of the multitude.'

13 And Jacob slept there that night. And he took of what he had, and sent it as a gift to Esau his brother, saying,

14 Two hundred goats, twenty goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams,

15 Thirty milking camels with their foals, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, ten donkeys.

16 And he gave into the hands of his servants every flock separately, and said unto his servants, Go before me, and keep a distance from flock to flock.