¹³ He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift^(A) for his brother Esau: ¹⁴ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,^{(B) 15} thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.^{(C) 16} He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”^(D)

¹⁷ He instructed the one in the lead: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’ ¹⁸ then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant^(E) Jacob. They are a gift^(F) sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’”

¹⁹ He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. ²⁰ And be sure to say, ‘Your servant^(G) Jacob is coming behind us.’” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts^(H) I am sending on ahead;^(I) later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”^{(J) 21} So Jacob’s gifts^(K) went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.