Genesis 32:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁹ 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, ²⁰ and you shall say, “Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.”’ For he thought, ‘I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.’ ²¹ So the present passed on ahead of him; and he himself spent that night in the camp.