Jubilee2000 - Genesis - 32

32:1  And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

32:2  And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host; and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

32:3  And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

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;

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.

32:6  And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he comes to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

32:7  Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people that [were] with him, and the sheep and the cows and the camels, into two bands

32:8  and said, If Esau comes to the one company and smites it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

32:9  And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said unto me, Return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.

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.

32:11  Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him lest he come and smite me [and] the mother with the children.

32:12  And thou hast said, I will surely do thee good and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

32:13  And he lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand [as] a present for Esau his brother:

32:14  two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred sheep and twenty rams,

32:15  thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

32:16  And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves and said unto his servants, Pass before me and put a space between drove and drove.

32:17  And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau, my brother, meets thee and asks thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? And where goest thou? And for whom [are] these before thee?

32:18  Then thou shalt say, [They are] thy servant Jacob's; it [is] a present sent unto my lord Esau; and, behold, also he [is] behind us.

32:19  And so commanded he the second and the third and all that followed those droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau when ye find him.

32:20  And ye shall also say, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will reconcile his wrath with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.

32:21  So the present went over before him, and he lodged that night in the company.

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.

32:23  And he took them and sent them over the brook and sent over [all] that he had.

32:24  And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

32:25  And when [the man] saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was disjointed as he wrestled with him.

32:26  And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

32:27  And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.

32:28  And he said, Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast fought with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

32:29  And Jacob asked [him] and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Why dost thou ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

32:30  And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for I have seen God face to face, and my soul was saved.

32:31  And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he limped upon his thigh.

32:32  Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat [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.: