Genesis 32

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