16These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.
17And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these herds?
18Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.
19And he gave the same orders to the second and the third and to all those who were with the herds, saying, This is what you are to say to Esau when you see him;
20And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.
21So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.
22And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.
