to my lord Esau, Thes thingis seith thi brother Jacob, At Laban I haue pylgrim|agid, [verse 5] and was vnto the present day; I haue oxen, and assis, and sheep, and ser|uauntis, and handmaydens, and I sende now a message to my lord, that Y fynde grace in thi siȝt. [verse 6] And the messangeris ben comun aȝen to Jacob, seiynge, We comen to Esau, thi brother, and loo! he goth into thin aȝen-comyng, with foure hundrid men. [verse 7] Jacob ful myche dred, and afeerd dyuydide his peple that with him was, the flockis forsothe, and sheep, and oxen, and camels diuydid in two compa|nyes; [verse 8] seiynge, If Esau come to the too companye, and smyte it, the tother com|panye that is lafte shal be sauyd. [verse 9] And Jacob seide, God of my fader Abraham, and God of my fader Ysaac, thow Lord, that seidist to me, Turne aȝen into thi loond, and into the place of thi birthe, and [verse 10] I shal wel do to [Om. A.] thee, Y am lasse than alle thi mercyes, and thi treuthe that thow hast fulfillid to thi seruaunt; in my staf I haue passid this Jordan, and now [Om. D.] with [verse 11] two companyes Y turne aȝen; delyuer me of the hoond of my brother Esau, for greetly Y drede hym, lest perauen|ture comynge he smyte the moders with the children. [verse 12] Thow hast spokun that thou shuldist wel do to me, and that thow shuldist sprede abrood my seed as the grauel of the see, that for multitude may not be noumbred. [verse 13] And whanne he hadde slept there that nyȝt, he seueride of that that he hadde ȝiftys to Esau, his [verse 14] brother, she geyte two hundrid, hee geyte twenty, sheepe two hundrid, and wetheris [verse 15] twenti, camels fulle with her coltis thretti, kien fourti, and bullis twenti, she assis twenti, and the coltis of hem ten. [verse 16] And he sente bi the hondis of his seruauntis eche oon after other the flockis aside; and he seide to his children, Goo ȝe bi|fore me, and be there a space bitwixe