Genesis 32:17-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁷ He instructed the foremost, ‘When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, “To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?” ¹⁸ then you shall say, “They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.”’ 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,