Genesis 33:8–15

⁸Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?”^h

“To find favor in your eyes, my lord,”ⁱ he said.

⁹But Esau said, “I already have plenty,^j my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”

¹⁰“No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes,^k accept this gift^l from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God,^m now that you have received me favorably.^{n 11}Please accept the present^o that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me^p and I have all I need.”^q And because Jacob insisted,^r Esau accepted it.

¹²Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”

¹³But Jacob said to him, “My lord^s knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young.^t If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. ¹⁴So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds^u before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.^v”

¹⁵Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”

“But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”^w