Genesis 32:3–11

³Then Jacob ^asent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of ^bSeir, the ¹country of ^cEdom.

⁴He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord, to Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, “I have sojourned with Laban and have been ^adelayed until now;

^5aAnd I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female slaves; and I have sent to tell my lord, ^bthat I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”

⁶Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and furthermore ^ahe is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

⁷Then Jacob was ^agreatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two camps.

⁸And he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp which remains will escape.”

⁹And Jacob said, “O ^aGod of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘^bReturn to your land and to your kin, and I will ¹prosper you,’

¹⁰¹I am unworthy ^aof all the lovingkindness and of all the truth which You have shown to Your slave; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

¹¹“^aDeliver me, I pray, ^bfrom the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me down with the ^cmothers and the children.