Genesis 33:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ But Jacob answered, “My lord knows that the children are delicate and that my flocks and herds are burdened with young ones. If they were to be pushed even one day, the entire flock would surely die. ¹⁴ Let my lord pass on ahead of your servant, while I stay here going slowly, at the pace of the animals that will go ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I eventually reach my lord in Seir.”

¹⁵ Esau said, “I could at least leave a part of my people with you!”

Jacob answered, “But why? Let me only find favor in your sight, my lord!”