Genesis 33:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹¹ Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want.’ So he urged him, and he took it.

¹² Then Esau said, ‘Let us journey on our way, and I will go alongside you.’ ¹³ But Jacob said to him, ‘My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.