Genesis 32:6-8

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau; and now he is [on the way] to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.

⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two groups,

⁸ Thinking, If Esau comes to the one group and smites it, then the other group which is left will escape.