Discovery BoxGenesis 32:5 
Context32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent 1 this message 2 to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
Genesis 32:13-15
Context32:13 Jacob 3 stayed there that night. Then he sent 4 as a gift 5 to his brother Esau 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 32:15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
1 tn Or “I am sending.” The form is a preterite with the vav consecutive; it could be rendered as an English present tense – as the Hebrew perfect/preterite allows – much like an epistolary aorist in Greek. The form assumes the temporal perspective of the one who reads the message.
2 tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “and he took from that which was going into his hand,” meaning that he took some of what belonged to him.
5 sn The Hebrew noun translated gift can in some contexts refer to the tribute paid by a subject to his lord. Such a nuance is possible here, because Jacob refers to Esau as his lord and to himself as Esau’s servant (v. 4).
