5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.''
6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, 'We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.'
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
8 and he said, 'If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.'
9 Jacob said, 'God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'
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