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And Jacob
went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
02 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This
is God's host: and he called the name of that
place Mahanaim.
03 And Jacob sent messengers before him to
Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the
country of Edom.
04 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:
05 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.
06 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.
07 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;
08 And said, If Esau come to the one
company, and smite it, then the other company
which is left shall escape.
09 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
shewed 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.
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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?
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.
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.
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