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Chapter 32 |
| 1 | And Jacob went
on his way, and the angels of God met him. |
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2 | And when Jacob saw them,
he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place
Mahanaim. |
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| And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. |
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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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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; |
| 8 | And said, If
Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is
left shall escape. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 13 | And he lodged there that same night; and
took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; |
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Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty
rams, |
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten
bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. |
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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.
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| 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? |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 21 |
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
night in the company. |
| 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. |
| 23
| And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent
over that he had. |
| 24 | And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled
a man with him until the breaking of the day. |
| 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.
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| 26 | And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not
let thee go, except thou bless me. |
| 27 | And he said unto him, What is
thy name? And he said, Jacob. |
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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. |
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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. |
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30 | And Jacob called the name
of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is
preserved. |
| 31
| And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and
he halted upon his thigh. |
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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. |
