32:1 Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
32:2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
32:3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
32:4 He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my master Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.
32:5 I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’”
32:6 When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
32:7 In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
32:8 He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”
32:9 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’
32:10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two groups.
32:11 Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
32:12 But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”
32:13 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
32:15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
32:16 He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”
32:17 He instructed the one in the lead: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’
32:18 then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’”
32:19 He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
32:20 And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”
32:21 So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.
32:22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
32:23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.
32:24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
32:25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
32:26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
32:27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
32:28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.”
32:29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
32:30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
32:31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.
32:32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.
32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
32:2 And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God s camp. So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, into the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now;
32:5 And I have oxen and donkeys and flocks, and male servants and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord this, that I may find favor in your sight.
32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you; and four hundred men are with him.
32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two camps;
32:8 And he said, If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp which is left will escape.
32:9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will do you good,
32:10 I am not worthy of all the lovingkindnesses and all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
32:11 Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children.
32:12 But You have said, I will surely do you good and make your seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
32:13 And he spent that night there. Then from what he had with him he took a present for Esau his brother:
32:14 Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
32:15 Thirty nursing camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Cross over before me, and put a space between each drove.
32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong? And where are you going? And whose animals are these before you?
32:18 Then you will say, Your servant Jacob s; it is a present sent to my lord Esau; and now he also is behind us.
32:19 And he commanded also the second and the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, In this way you shall speak to Esau when you find him,
32:20 And you shall also say, Your servant Jacob is right behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.
32:21 So the present crossed over before him, and he himself spent that night in the camp.
32:22 And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two female servants and his eleven children and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
32:23 And he took them and sent them over the stream and sent over what he had.
32:24 And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
32:25 And when the man saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with Him.
32:26 And the man said, Let Me go, for the dawn is breaking. But Jacob said, I will not let You go unless You bless me.
32:27 And He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
32:28 And He said, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.
32:29 And Jacob asked Him and said, Please tell me Your name. But He said, Why is it that you ask My name? And He blessed him there.
32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, he said, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been preserved.
32:31 And the sun rose upon him as he crossed over Penuel, and he limped because of his hip.
32:32 Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the thigh muscle, which is upon the socket of the hip, to this day, because He touched the socket of Jacob s hip at the thigh muscle.