⁵ Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.

Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.^(A)”

⁴ and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers.^(A) I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land^(B) as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’^(C)

³ But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan^(A) and gave him many descendants.^(B) I gave him Isaac,^{(C) 4} and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.^(D) I assigned the hill country of Seir^(E) to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.^(F)