Genesis 32:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ He gave this order to the first group, “When you meet Esau, my brother, and he asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Who owns all these animals that you are driving?’ ¹⁹ you are to answer, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift for my lord Esau. And Jacob himself is behind us.’ ”

²⁰ He gave the same order to the second group and the third and all the other groups: “These are the words that you shall say to Esau when you meet him.