⁶ When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

¹ Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.

⁴⁰ By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

⁴¹ So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

⁸ And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.

¹¹ Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

¹⁹ As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.