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Ge32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

Ge32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

Ge32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

Ge32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

Ge32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

Ge32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Ge32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

Ge32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

Ge32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

Ge32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.