Jacob and Esau Meet

33 Now Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and there, ^(A)Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

⁶ Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and ^(A)he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” ⁷ So Jacob was greatly afraid and ^(B)distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.

Jacob Escapes from Esau

⁴¹ So Esau ^(A)hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, ^(B)“The days of mourning for my father ^[a]are at hand; ^(C)then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

⁴² And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Surely your brother Esau ^(D)comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you.

¹⁶ Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.”