⁸ Then Esau said, “What do you mean by ^(A)all this company which I met?”

And he said, “These are ^(B)to find favor in the sight of my lord.”

^5 (A)I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that ^(B)I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”

¹⁷ The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal ^(A)crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

⁵ So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that ^(A)the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had in the house and in the field.

¹³ So he lodged there that same night, and took what ^[a]came to his hand as ^(A)a present for Esau his brother: ¹⁴ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ¹⁵ thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. ¹⁶ Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.” ¹⁷ And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?’ ¹⁸ then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.’ ” ¹⁹ So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, “In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him; ²⁰ and also say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will ^(B)appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”