These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.”
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’
And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.