Genesis 32:4-9

4He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, “I have sojourned with Laban, and 1stayed until now; 52I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, 3that I may find favor in your sight.”’”

6The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore 4he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” 7Then Jacob was 5greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies; 8for he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and 6attacks it, then the company which is left will escape.”

9Jacob said, “O 7God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘8Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will 9prosper you,’