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98 Iacob: I haue seiourned, and haue been with Laban vntil this present day. I haue oxen, & asses, & sheepe, & men seruants: & women seruants: & now I send a legacie to my Lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. And the messengers returned to Iacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, & behold he commeth with speed to meet thee with foure hundred men. Iacob ″ feared exceedingly: and being sore affraid diuided the people that was with him, the flocks also and the sheep and the oxen, and the camels, into two troups, saying: If Esau come to one troup, and strike it, the other troup that remaineth shal be saued. And Iacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac; O Lord that didest say to me: Returne into thy land, and into the place of thy natiuitie, and I wil doe thee good. I am inferiour to al thy mercies, and thy truth that thou hast fulfilled to thy seruant. With my staffe I passed ouer this Iordan: and now with two troupes I doe returne. Deliuer me from the hand of my brother Esau, because I am sore affraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and strike the mother with the children. Thou didest say that thou wouldest do good to me, and dilate my seed as the sand of the sea, which for multitude can not be numbred. And when he had slept there that night, he separated of those things which he had, guifts to his brother Esau, she goats two hundred, he goats twentie, ewes two hundred, and rammes twentie, thirtie milch camels with their colts, fourtie kine, and twentie buls, twentie she asses, and their foles ten. And he sent by the hands of his seruants euerie flock by it-selfe, and he said to his seruants: Goe before me, and let there be a space between flock and flock. And he commanded the former, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he aske thee, whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these that thou doest follow? thou shalt answer: Iacobes thy seruant, he hath sent them for guifts to my Lord Esau: himselfe also commeth after vs. In like manner he gaue commandements to the second, and the third, and to al that followed the flocks, saying: With the selfe-same words speake ye to Esau, when you shal find him. And ye shal adde: Iacob also thy seruant himselfe followeth on after vs; for he said: I wil pacifie him with the guifts that goe before, and afterward I wil see him, perhaps he wil be gracious vnto me. The guifts therefore went before him, but himselfe lodged that night in the campe. And when he was risen early, he tooke his two wiues, and his handmaids as manie, with his eleuen sonnes, and passed ouer the ford Iaboc. And when he had set ouer al things that appertained to him, he taried alone: and behold ″ a man wrastled with him til morning. Who when he saw that he could not ouercome him, he touched the sinow of his thigh, and forthwith it shranke. And he said to him: Let me goe for it Rh