# Please let my master go on ahead of his servant

This is a polite and formal way of Jacob referring to himself. Alternate translation: "My lord, I am your servant. Please go ahead of me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-123person]])

# at the pace of the livestock that are before me

"at the speed the animals I am looking after can go"

# Seir

This is a mountainous area in the region of Edom. See how you translated this in [Genesis 32:3](../32/03.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])