Genesis 32:3–11

³Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother ^cin the land of Seir, ^dthe ²country of Edom. ⁴And he commanded them, saying, ^e“Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now. ^5fI have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that ^gI may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”

⁶Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and ^hhe also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” ⁷So Jacob was greatly afraid and ⁱdistressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies. ⁸And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and ³attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”

^9jThen Jacob said, ^k“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord ^lwho said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: ¹⁰I am not worthy of the least of all the ^mmercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with ⁿmy staff, and now I have become two companies. ^11oDeliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and ⁴attack me and ^pthe mother with the children.