And you are to add, ‘Your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me, and after that I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
Traditional numbering: 32:20
In context
19then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and Jacob himself is right behind us.’” 20He gave the same instructions to the second servant, and the third, and to all who were following the herds: “This is what you are to say to Esau when you find him. 21And you are to add, ‘Your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me, and after that I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.” 22So the gift went on ahead of him, while he himself spent that night in the camp. 23That same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
