Genesis 32:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 Save me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau! Otherwise I fear that he will come and strike me down and the mothers with the children. 13 You yourself said, ‘I will be very good to you, and I will make your descendants like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’”(A)
14 After passing the night there, Jacob selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:
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