Genesis 32:14-22

14two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams,

15thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.

16He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”

17And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’

18then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’”

19He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.

20You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

21So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.

22During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.