⁸ And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and ^[a]attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”

Persecutions Are Coming^(A)

^16 (B)“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. ^(C)Therefore be wise as serpents and ^(D)harmless^[a] as doves.

Jacob and Esau Meet

33 Now Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and there, ^(A)Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants. ² And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. ³ Then he crossed over before them and ^(B)bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.