Genesis 32:19-21

New Catholic Bible

¹⁹ you are to answer, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift for my lord Esau. And Jacob himself is behind us.’ ”

²⁰ He gave the same order to the second group and the third and all the other groups: “These are the words that you shall say to Esau when you meet him. ²¹ Tell him, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’ ” He was thinking, “The gifts that I am sending will calm him down, and then I will come before him. Maybe he will greet me kindly.”