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Genesis 32:1-32
So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw
them, he said, This is God’s camp. And he called the name of that
place Mahanaim. Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his
brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. And he commanded them,
saying, Speak thus to my lord Esau, Thus your servant Jacob says: I have
dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now. I have oxen, donkeys, flocks,
and male and female servants, and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find
favor in your sight. Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came
to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred
men are with him. So Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he
divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels,
into two companies. And he said, If Esau comes to the one company
and attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.
Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac,
the Lord who said to me, Return to your country and to your family, and I
will deal well with you: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and
of all the truth which You have shown Your servant, for I crossed over this
Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies. Deliver me,
I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him,
lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children. For You said,
I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the
sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.