Genesis 32

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

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

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

⁴instructing them, Thus you shall say to my lord Esau : Thus says your servant Jacob , I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now .

⁵I have oxen , donkeys , flocks , male servants , and female servants . I have sent to tell my lord , in order that I may find favor in your sight .

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

⁷Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed . He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels , into two camps ,

⁸thinking , If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will 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 country and to your kindred , that I may do you good ,

¹⁰I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant , for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan , and now I have become two camps .

¹¹Please deliver me from the hand of my brother , from the hand of Esau , for I fear him, that he may come and attack me , the mothers with the children .

¹²But you said , I will surely do you good , and make your offspring as the sand of the sea , which cannot be numbered for multitude .

¹³So he stayed there that night , and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau,

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

¹⁵thirty milking camels and their calves , forty cows and ten bulls , twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys .

¹⁶These he handed over to his servants , every drove by itself , and said to his servants , Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove .

¹⁷He instructed the first , When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, To whom do you belong? Where are you going ? And whose are these ahead of you?

¹⁸then you shall say , They belong to your servant Jacob . They are a present sent to my lord Esau . And moreover , he is behind us .

¹⁹He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves , You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him,

²⁰and you shall say , Moreover , your servant Jacob is behind us . For he thought , I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me , and afterward I shall see his face . Perhaps he will accept me .

²¹So the present passed on ahead of him , and he himself stayed that night in the camp .

²²The same night he arose and took his two wives , his two female servants , and his eleven children , and crossed the ford of the Jabbok .

²³He took them and sent them across the stream , and everything else that he had.

²⁴And Jacob was left alone . And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day .

²⁵When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket , and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.

²⁶Then he said , Let me go , for the day has broken . But Jacob said , I will not let you go unless you bless me.

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

²⁸Then he said , Your name shall no longer be called Jacob , but Israel , for you have striven with God and with men , and have prevailed .

²⁹Then Jacob asked him, Please tell me your name . But he said , Why is it that you ask my name ? And there he blessed him.

³⁰So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel , saying, For I have seen God face to face , and yet my life has been delivered .

³¹The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel , limping because of his hip .

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