And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.
Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;
Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.