12. You said to me, ‘I will treat you well and will make your children as many as the sand of the seashore. There will be too many to count.’ ”
13. Jacob stayed there for the night and prepared a gift for Esau from what he had with him:
14. two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred female sheep and twenty male sheep,
15. thirty female camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.
16. Jacob gave each separate flock of animals to one of his servants and said to them, “Go ahead of me and keep some space between each herd.”
17. Jacob gave them their orders. To the servant with the first group of animals he said, “My brother Esau will come to you and ask, ‘Whose servant are you? Where are you going and whose animals are these?’