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12 Then Esau suggested, “Let’s set out and travel together, but let me go in front of you.”

13 “Sir, you know[a] that the children are frail,” Jacob suggested, “and the ewes and cows with me are still nursing their young. If they’re driven even for a day, the entire flock will die. 14 So allow yourself to[b] go ahead of your servant while I travel more slowly, letting the herds set their own pace[c] with the children until I arrive to see my lord in Seir.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:13 Lit. My lord knows
  2. Genesis 33:14 Lit. So let my lord
  3. Genesis 33:14 Lit. feet