1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. NHEB — Genesis 32:1
2 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God’s camp." He called the name of that place Mahanaim. NHEB — Genesis 32:2
3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the region of Edom. NHEB — Genesis 32:3
4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. NHEB — Genesis 32:4
5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'" NHEB — Genesis 32:5
6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him." NHEB — Genesis 32:6
7 Then Jacob was very afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps; NHEB — Genesis 32:7
8 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one camp, and strikes it, then the other camp will escape." NHEB — Genesis 32:8
9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,' NHEB — Genesis 32:9
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses and of all the faithfulness which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. NHEB — Genesis 32:10
11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children. NHEB — Genesis 32:11
12 You said, 'I will surely do you good and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.'" NHEB — Genesis 32:12
13 So he spent the night there and selected from what he had acquired a present for his brother Esau: NHEB — Genesis 32:13
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, NHEB — Genesis 32:14
15 thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. NHEB — Genesis 32:15
16 He entrusted them into the hands of his servants as separate herds, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and keep some distance between the herds." NHEB — Genesis 32:16
17 He instructed the first, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these ahead of you?' NHEB — Genesis 32:17
18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord Esau. And look, he also is behind us.'" NHEB — Genesis 32:18
19 He instructed also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you are to speak to Esau, when you find him. NHEB — Genesis 32:19
20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but look, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me." NHEB — Genesis 32:20
21 So the gift passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. NHEB — Genesis 32:21
22 He got up that night and took his two wives, and his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok. NHEB — Genesis 32:22
23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and sent over all his possessions. NHEB — Genesis 32:23
24 Then Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn. NHEB — Genesis 32:24
25 When he saw that he did not defeat him, he struck the socket of his hip, and Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him. NHEB — Genesis 32:25
26 Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But Jacob said, "I won’t let you go unless you bless me." NHEB — Genesis 32:26
27 And he said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob." NHEB — Genesis 32:27
28 Then he said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed." NHEB — Genesis 32:28
29 Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" And he blessed him there. NHEB — Genesis 32:29
30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved." NHEB — Genesis 32:30
31 The sun rose on him as he passed by Peniel, and he limped because of his hip. NHEB — Genesis 32:31
32 Therefore, to this day the children of Israel do not eat the tendon of the hip socket, because he struck Jacob’s hip socket near that tendon. NHEB — Genesis 32:32