and he said, “If Ěsaw comes to the one group and strikes it, then the other group which is left shall escape.”
And Ya‛aqoḇ was greatly afraid and distressed. So he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two groups,
And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “O Elohim of my father Aḇraham and Elohim of my father Yitsḥaq, יהוה who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives, and I do good to you,’
“See, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.