and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge?”

Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and also room to lodge.”

Now at that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to [stay with] a certain Adullamite named Hirah.

So Jacob spent the night there. Then he selected a present for his brother Esau from the livestock he had acquired:

So the gift [of the herds of livestock] went on ahead of him, and he himself spent that night back in the camp.

And he said, “See here, my lords, please turn aside and come into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may get up early and go on your way.” But they said, “No, we shall spend the night in the open plaza [of the city].”