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GE-32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him.
GE-32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host:
and
he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
GE-32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his
brother unto
the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
GE-32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto
my
lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with
Laban,
and stayed there until now:
GE-32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find
grace
in thy sight.
GE-32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came
to thy
brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred
men
with him.
GE-32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he
divided
the people that [was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and
the
camels, into two bands;
GE-32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it,
then
the other company which is left shall escape.
GE-32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of
my
father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy
country,
and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
GE-32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and
of all
the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my
staff
I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
GE-32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,
from
the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,
[and] the mother with the children.
GE-32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make
thy
seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
multitude.
GE-32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that
which
came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
GE-32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred
ewes, and twenty rams,
GE-32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and
ten
bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
GE-32:16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants,
every
drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over
before me,
and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
GE-32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my
brother
meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and
whither
goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?
GE-32:18 Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob's; it
[is]
a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is]
behind us.
GE-32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all
that
followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto
Esau,
when ye find him.
GE-32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is]
behind
us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth
before
me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will
accept of
me.
GE-32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself
lodged that
night in the company.
GE-32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and
his
two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford
Jabbok.
GE-32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and
sent
over that he had.
GE-32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man
with him
until the breaking of the day.
GE-32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he
touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was
out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
GE-32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he
said, I
will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
GE-32:27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said,
Jacob.
GE-32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,
and
hast prevailed.
GE-32:29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray
thee, thy
name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after
my
name? And he blessed him there.
GE-32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I
have
seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
GE-32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him,
and he
halted upon his thigh.
GE-32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew
which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this
day:
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that
shrank.
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