Genesis 32

¹And Jacob went on his way, and the messengers of God met him.

²And Jacob said when he saw them, 'This is God's camp!' And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

³And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

⁴And he commanded them, saying, 'Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban and lingered until now.'

⁵And I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and a servant and a maidservant, and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.'

⁶And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, 'We came to your brother, to Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.'

⁷And Jacob was very afraid and distressed, and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the cattle and the camels, into two camps.

⁸And he said, 'If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the remaining camp will be an escape.'

⁹And Jacob said, 'O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, Return to your land and to the land of your birth, and I will deal well with you —

¹⁰I am too small for 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.

¹¹Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he come and strike me, mother upon children.

¹²And you said, 'I will surely do you good, and I will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of its abundance.'

¹³And he lodged there that night, and he took from what had come into his hand a gift for Esau his brother —

¹⁴two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

¹⁵thirty nursing camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses.

¹⁶And he put them in the hand of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, 'Pass on ahead of me, and keep a space between each herd.'

¹⁷And he commanded the first, saying, 'When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and whose are these ahead of you?'

¹⁸Then you shall say, 'It belongs to your servant Jacob; it is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau, and behold, he himself is also behind us.'

¹⁹And he commanded also the second, also the third, also all who followed the herds, saying, 'According to this word you shall speak to Esau when you find him.'

²⁰And you shall say, Also, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he thought, I will appease his face with the gift that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will lift up my face.

²¹And the gift passed on ahead of him, and he himself lodged in the camp that night.

²²And he arose that night, and took his two wives and his two maidservants and his eleven children, and crossed at the ford of the Jabbok.

²³And he took them and sent them across the torrent, and he sent across all that was his.

²⁴And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.

²⁵And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck the socket of his thigh, and the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

²⁶And he said: Let me go, for the dawn has risen. And he said: I will not let you go unless you have blessed me.

²⁷And he said to him: What is your name? And he said: Jacob.

²⁸And he said, 'Jacob shall no longer be said to be your name, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.'

²⁹And Jacob asked and said: Tell me please your name. And he said: Why is it that you ask my name? And he blessed him there.

³⁰And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.

³¹And the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.

³²Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the socket of the hip, to this day, for he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.