And the messengers came again to Iacob
saying: we came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee
and four hundred men with him. Then was Iacob greatly afraid, and
wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that
was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,
and said: If Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other may
save itself. And Iacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God
of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, return unto thy
country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee. I am
not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou
hast shewed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this
Iordan, and now have I gotten two droves. Deliver me from the
hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him: lest he will come and
smite the mother with the children. Thou saidest that thou
wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand
of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude. And he tarried
there that same night, and took of that which came to hand, a
present, unto Esau his brother: Two hundred she goats and twenty
he goats: two hundred sheep and twenty rams: thirty milch camels
with their colts: forty kine and ten bulls: twenty she asses and
ten foals and delivered them unto his servants, every drove by
them selves, and said unto them: go forth before me and put a
space betwixt every drove.
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