Jacob saw Esau coming with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slaves.
He placed servants in charge of each herd. Then he said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep a distance between the herds.”
(Therefore, even today the people of Israel do not eat the muscle of the thigh attached to the hip socket because God touched the socket of Jacob’s hip at the muscle of the thigh.)
He put the slaves and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last.