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So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,
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two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses.
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These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove."
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He instructed the foremost, "When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, `To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before you?'
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then you shall say, `They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.'"
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He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,
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and you shall say, `Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me."
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So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.