⁷ So Jacob was greatly afraid and ^(A)distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies. ⁸ And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and ^[a]attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”

^9 (B)Then Jacob said, ^(C)“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord ^(D)who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: