¹³ He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift^(A) for his brother Esau: ¹⁴ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,^{(B) 15} thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.^(C)

¹⁸ then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant^(A) Jacob. They are a gift^(B) sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’”

²⁰ And be sure to say, ‘Your servant^(A) Jacob is coming behind us.’” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts^(B) I am sending on ahead;^(C) later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”^(D)

²¹ So Jacob’s gifts^(A) went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

¹⁰ “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes,^(A) accept this gift^(B) from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God,^(C) now that you have received me favorably.^(D)

¹¹ Then their father Israel^(A) said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products^(B) of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift^(C)—a little balm^(D) and a little honey, some spices^(E) and myrrh,^(F) some pistachio nuts and almonds.

¹⁵ So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver,^(A) and Benjamin also. They hurried^(B) down to Egypt and presented themselves^(C) to Joseph.

²⁵ They prepared their gifts^(A) for Joseph’s arrival at noon,^(B) because they had heard that they were to eat there.

²⁶ When Joseph came home,^(A) they presented to him the gifts^(B) they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.^(C)