| Chapter
32 |
| 1 | And
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. |
| 2 | And when Jacob saw them, he said, This
is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. |
| 3 | And Jacob sent messengers before him to
Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. |
| 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: |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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; |
| 14 | Two hundred
she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, |
| 15 | Thirty milch camels with their
colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
