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And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

And when he saw them, Jacob said, This is the camp of God. And he called the name of that place, Two Camps.

And Jacob sent messengers before his face to his brother Esau, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

And he commanded them, saying, You shall say to my lord, to Esau: Your servant Jacob says this: I have sojourned with Laban and remained until now.

And it is mine to have oxen, and asses, flocks, and slaves and slave-girls. And I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.

And the messengers came back to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and also he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.

And Jacob was afraid, and he was very distressed. And he divided the people with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.

And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then it will be, the company that is left shall escape.

And Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Go back to your land and to your kindred and I will deal well with you.

I am not worthy of all the mercies and all the truth which You have done for Your servant, for I passed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.

Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, mother to sons.

And You said, dealing I will deal well with you, and I will make your seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

And he remained there that night. And he took a present from what came into his hand, for his brother Esau:

two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred rams,

thirty nursing camels with their thirty colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten young asses.

And he gave into the hand of his slaves every drove by itself. And he said to his slaves, Pass over before my face and put a space between drove and drove.

And he commanded the first ones, saying, When my brother Esau meets you and asks, saying, Whose are you, and where do you go, and whose are these before your face?

Then you will say, Your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and, behold, also he is behind us.

And he also commanded the second, also the third, even all the ones going after the droves, saying, You shall speak this word to Esau when you find him.

And you shall also say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will cover his face by the present, the one going before my face, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will lift up my face.

And the present passed before his face, and he remained in the camp that night.