Genesis 32:17
King James VersionSource notes
“And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose thou? and whither goest thou? and whose these before thee?”
Context
14Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
16And he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
17And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose thou? and whither goest thou? and whose these before thee?
18Then thou shalt say, thy servant Jacob’s; it a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he behind us.
19And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.