TRV
The Present Sent to Appease Esau
Genesis 32:13-21
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And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau,
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Two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she-asses, and ten of their foals.
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And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.
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And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee?
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Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us.
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In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him.
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And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.
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So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp.
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