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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