Genesis 32
1 Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them. Then he left and returned to his home.
2 Jacob went on his way, and angels of God came to meet him.
3 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
4 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
5 He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: “I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
6 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male and female servants, and I am sending word to my lord, hoping to find favor in your eyes.”’”
7 The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you with four hundred men.”
8 Jacob was very afraid and distressed. He divided the people with him, and the flocks, herds, and camels, into two camps.
9 He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, the camp that is left may escape.”
10 Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives, and I will do you good.’
11 I am not worthy of all the faithful love and all the faithfulness you have shown your servant. For I crossed this Jordan with only my staff, and now I have become two camps.
12 “Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, in case he comes and attacks me, the mothers and their children.
13 You said, ‘I will surely do you good and make your descendants like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
14 He spent that night there. From what he had with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
15 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
16 thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten young donkeys.
17 He handed them over to his servants, each herd by itself, and said to the servants, “Go on ahead of me, and leave a space between one herd and the next.”
18 He instructed the first one: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? Whose animals are these ahead of you?’
19 then answer, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he himself is coming behind us.’”
20 He gave the same instructions to the second, the third, and all who followed the herds: “You are to speak to Esau in the same way when you meet him.
21 Also say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease him with the gift going ahead of me; afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
22 The gift went on ahead of him, and he spent that night in the camp.
23 That night he got up, took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
24 He took them and made them cross the stream, and he also sent across everything he had.
25 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
26 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip, and Jacob’s hip socket was dislocated as he wrestled with him.
27 Then the man said, “Let me go, for day is breaking.” Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
28 He asked, “What is your name?” Jacob answered, “Jacob.”
29 He said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
30 Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” He replied, “Why do you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.
31 Jacob named that place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been spared.”
32 The sun rose on him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
33 That is why the Israelites do not eat the tendon at the hip joint to this day, because he touched Jacob’s hip joint at the tendon.
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