Genesis 32:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² Save me from the hands of my brother Esau because I am afraid of him. Let him not come and kill all of us, even the mothers and children. ¹³ Besides, you said, ‘I will make you prosper and I will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, so numerous that you cannot count them.’ ”

¹⁴ Jacob spent the night there. Then he selected the following gifts from among his possessions for his brother Esau: