Genesis 32:20-24

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²⁰ Jacob’s strategy was to appease Esau with the presents before meeting him face-to-face! “Perhaps,” Jacob hoped, “he will be friendly to us.” ²¹ So the presents were sent on ahead, and Jacob spent that night in the camp.

^22-24 But during the night he got up and wakened^[a] his two wives and his two concubines and eleven sons, and sent them across the Jordan River at the Jabbok ford with all his possessions, then returned again to the camp and was there alone; and a Man wrestled with him until dawn.