He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,
then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.’ ”
and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”
And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.