Genesis 32

1Laban rose early in the morning, kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.

2And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

3When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

4Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

5And he commanded them, saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban and have stayed until now.’”

6I have oxen and donkeys, flocks, male servants and female servants, and I have sent to tell my lord, so that I may find favor in your eyes.

7The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

8Then Jacob was very afraid and distressed, and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.

9He said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp that remains will escape.”

10And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’”

11I am unworthy of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

12Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he come and strike me, the mother with the children.

13But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of its abundance.’

14So he spent that night there, and he took from what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother:

15two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams.

16thirty nursing camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

17He put each herd by itself into the hand of his servants, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

18And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘Whose are you, and where are you going, and whose are these before you?’...”

19Then you shall say, ‘Your servant Jacob's gift is sent to my lord, to Esau; and look, he also is behind us.’

20And he commanded the second also, and the third also, and all those going behind the droves, saying, “According to this word you shall speak to Esau when you find him.”

21And you shall also say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is behind us,’ for he said, ‘I will appease him with the gift that is going ahead of me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.’

22So the gift passed on ahead of him, but he himself stayed that night in the camp.

23That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

24He took them and brought them across the stream, and he brought across what belonged to him.

25And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the dawn came up.

26When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his thigh, and the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

27And he said, “Let me go, for the dawn has risen.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

28And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

29And he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

30Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

31And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face, and my life has been delivered.

32The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.

33Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh at the sinew of the hip.