⁸ and saith, `If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it -- then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.'

¹ And Jacob lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divideth the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two maid-servants;

² and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

³ And he himself passed over before them, and boweth himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing nigh unto his brother,

¹⁶ `Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.