He said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

"This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.

He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, "Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next."

Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir."