Genesis Chapter 32

Genesis Chapter 32
1 Now Jacob went forth on his journey
and the angels of God met him. 2 And
when Jacob saw them, he said, This is
God’s host, and called the name of the
same place Mahanaim.
3 Then Jacob sent messengers before
him to Esau his brother, unto the land of
Seir into the country of Edom:
4 To whom he gave commandment,
saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord
Esau: thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have
been a stranger with Laban, and tarried
unto this time.
5 I have beeves also and asses, sheep,
and menservants, and women servants,
and have sent to show my lord, that I
may find grace in thy sight. 6 So the
messengers came again to Jacob, saying,
We came unto thy brother Esau, and he
also cometh against thee and four
hundred men with him. 7 Then Jacob
was greatly afraid, and was sore
troubled, and divided the people that
was with him, and the sheep, and the
beeves, and the camels into two
companies.
8 For he said, If Esau come to the one
company and smite it, the other company
shall escape.
9 Moreover Jacob said, O God of my
father Abraham, and God of my father
Isaac: Lord, which saidst unto me,
Return unto thy country and to thy
kindred, and I will do thee good,
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the
mercies, and all the truth, which thou
hast showed unto thy servant: for with
my staff came I over this Jordan, and
now have I gotten two bands.
11 I pray thee, Deliver me 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 upon the children.
12 For 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 tarried there the same night,
and took of that which came to had, 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 bullocks, twenty she
asses and ten foals.
16 So 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.
17 And he commanded the foremost,
saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and
ask thee, saying, Whose servant 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, he himself
also is behind us.
19 So likewise commanded he the
second and the third, and all that
followed the droves, saying, After this
manner, ye shall speak unto Esau, when
ye find him.
20 And ye shall say moreover, Behold,
thy servant Jacob cometh after us (for he
thought, I will appease his wrath with
the present that goeth before me, and
afterward I will see his face: it may be
that he will accept me.) 21 So went the
present before him: but he tarried that
night with the company. 22 And he rose
up the same night, and took his two
wives, and his two maids, and his
eleven children, and went over the ford
Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over
the river, and sent over that he had. 24
When Jacob was left himself alone,
there wrestled a man with him unto the
breaking of the day.
25 And he saw that he could not prevail
against him: therefore he touched the
hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of
Jacob’s thigh was loosed, as he wrestled
with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the
morning appeareth. Who answered, I
will not let thee go except thou bless me.
27 Then said he unto him, What is thy
name? And he said, Jacob. 28 Then said
he, Thy name shall be called Jacob no
more, but Israel: because thou hast had
power with God, thou shalt also prevail
with men. 29 Then Jacob demanded,
saying, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.
And he said, Wherefore now dost thou
ask my name? And he blessed him there
30 And Jacob called the name of the
place, Peniel: for, said he, I have seen
God face to face, and my life is
preserved.
31 And the sun rose up to him as he
passed Peniel, and he halted upon his
thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat
not of the sinew that shrank in the hollow
of the thigh, unto this day: because he
touched the sinew that shrank in the
hollow of Jacob’s thigh.