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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