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He also commanded them saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban, and ^(f)stayed until now;

^(g)I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, ^(h)that I may find favor in your sight."'"

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore ⁽ⁱ⁾he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."

Then Jacob was ^(j)greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;

for he said, "If Esau comes to the one company and ^[d]attacks it, then the company which is left will escape."

Jacob said, "O ^(k)God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord , who said to me, ‘^(l)Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will ^[e]prosper you,'