thinking, “If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company that is left will escape.”
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and herds and camels into two companies,
And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’
“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.