Genesis 32:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁶ The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, ‘We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.’ ⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies, ⁸ thinking, ‘If Esau comes to one company and destroys it, then the company that is left will escape.’