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Iacob: I haue seiourned, and haue been with Laban vntil this present day. ⁵I haue oxen, & asses, & sheepe, & men seruants: & women seruants: & now I send a legacie to my Lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. ⁶And the messengers returned to Iacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, & behold he commeth with speed to meet thee with foure hundred men. ⁷Iacob ″ feared exceedingly: and being sore affraid diuided the people that was with him, the flocks also and the sheep and the oxen, and the camels, into two troups, ⁸saying: If Esau come to one troup, and strike it, the other troup that remaineth shal be saued. ⁹And Iacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac; O Lord that didest say to me: Returne into thy land, and into the place of thy natiuitie, and I wil doe thee good. ¹⁰I am inferiour to al thy mercies, and thy truth that thou hast fulfilled to thy seruant. With my staffe I passed ouer this Iordan: and now with two troupes I doe returne. ¹¹Deliuer me from the hand of my brother Esau, because I am sore affraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and strike the mother with the children. ¹²Thou didest say that thou wouldest do good to me, and dilate my seed as the sand of the sea, which for multitude can not be numbred. ¹³And when he had slept there that night, he separated of those things which he had, guifts to his brother Esau, ¹⁴she goats two hundred, he goats twentie, ewes two hundred, and rammes twentie, ¹⁵thirtie milch camels with their colts, fourtie kine, and twentie buls, twentie she asses, and their foles ten. ¹⁶And he sent by the hands of his seruants euerie flock by it-selfe, and he said to his seruants: Goe before me, and let there be a space between flock and flock. ¹⁷And he commanded the former, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he aske thee, whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these that thou doest follow? ¹⁸thou shalt answer: Iacobes thy seruant, he hath sent them for guifts to my Lord Esau: himselfe also commeth after vs. ¹⁹In like manner he gaue commandements to the second, and the third, and to al that followed the flocks, saying: With the selfe-same words speake ye to Esau, when you shal find him. ²⁰And ye shal adde: Iacob also thy seruant himselfe followeth on after vs; for he said: I wil pacifie him with the guifts that goe before, and afterward I wil see him, perhaps he wil be gracious vnto me. ²¹The guifts therefore went before him, but himselfe lodged that night in the campe. ²²And when he was risen early, he tooke his two wiues, and his handmaids as manie, with his eleuen sonnes, and passed ouer the ford Iaboc. ²³And when he had set ouer al things that appertained to him, ²⁴he taried alone: and behold ″ a man wrastled with him til morning. ²⁵Who when he saw that he could not ouercome him, he touched the sinow of his thigh, and forthwith it shranke. ²⁶And he said to him: Let me goe for it