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and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night on the mountain. (Genesis 31, 54)
Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him; (Genesis 32, 1)
and when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's army!" So he called the name of that place Mahana'im. (Genesis 32, 2)
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Se'ir, the country of Edom, (Genesis 32, 3)
instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, `I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now; (Genesis 32, 4)
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him." (Genesis 32, 6)
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies, (Genesis 32, 7)
thinking, "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company which is left will escape." (Genesis 32, 8)
And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who didst say to me, `Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,' (Genesis 32, 9)
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children. (Genesis 32, 11)
So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau, (Genesis 32, 13)
He instructed the foremost, "When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, `To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before you?' (Genesis 32, 17)
