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1 And Ja­cob went on his way, and the an­gels of God met him. 2 And when Ja­cob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Ma­hanaim. 3 And Ja­cob sent mes­sen­gers be­fore him to Esau his broth­er unto the land of Seir, the coun­try of Edom. 4 And he com­mand­ed them, say­ing, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy ser­vant Ja­cob saith thus, I have so­journed with La­ban, and stayed there un­til now: 5 And I have ox­en, and ass­es, flocks, and menser­vants, and wom­enser­vants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. 6 And the mes­sen­gers re­turned to Ja­cob, say­ing, We came to thy broth­er Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hun­dred men with him. 7 Then Ja­cob was great­ly afraid and dis­tressed: and he di­vid­ed the peo­ple that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; 8 And said, If Esau come to the one com­pa­ny, and smite it, then the oth­er com­pa­ny which is left shall es­cape. 9 And Ja­cob said, O God of my fa­ther Abra­ham, and God of my fa­ther Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Re­turn unto thy coun­try, and to thy kin­dred, and I will deal well with thee: 10 I am not wor­thy of the least of all the mer­cies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy ser­vant; for with my staff I passed over this Jor­dan; and now I am be­come two bands. 11 De­liv­er me, I pray thee, from the hand of my broth­er, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the moth­er with the chil­dren. 12 And thou saidst, I will sure­ly do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which can­not be num­bered for mul­ti­tude. 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a pre­sent for Esau his broth­er; 14 Two hun­dred she goats, and twen­ty he goats, two hun­dred ewes, and twen­ty rams, 15 Thir­ty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twen­ty she ass­es, and ten foals. 16 And he de­liv­ered them into the hand of his ser­vants, ev­ery drove by them­selves; and said unto his ser­vants, Pass over be­fore me, and put a space be­twixt drove and drove. 17 And he com­mand­ed the fore­most, say­ing, When Esau my broth­er meeteth thee, and as­keth thee, say­ing, Whose art thou? and whith­er goest thou? and whose are these be­fore thee? 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy ser­vant Jacob's; it is a pre­sent sent unto my lord Esau: and, be­hold, also he is be­hind us. 19 And so com­mand­ed he the sec­ond, and the third, and all that fol­lowed the droves, say­ing, On this man­ner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. 20 And say ye more­over, Be­hold, thy ser­vant Ja­cob is be­hind us. For he said, I will ap­pease him with the pre­sent that goeth be­fore me, and af­ter­ward I will see his face; per­ad­ven­ture he will ac­cept of me. 21 So went the pre­sent over be­fore him: and him­self lodged that night in the com­pa­ny. 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two wom­enser­vants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jab­bok. 23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. 24 And Ja­cob was left alone; and there wres­tled a man with him un­til the break­ing of the day. 25 And when he saw that he pre­vailed not against him, he touched the hol­low of his thigh; and the hol­low of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wres­tled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, ex­cept thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Ja­cob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Ja­cob, but Is­rael: for as a prince hast thou pow­er with God and with men, and hast pre­vailed. 29 And Ja­cob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Where­fore is it that thou dost ask af­ter my name? And he blessed him there. 30 And Ja­cob called the name of the place Pe­niel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is pre­served. 31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halt­ed upon his thigh. 32 There­fore the chil­dren of Is­rael eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hol­low of the thigh, unto this day: be­cause he touched the hol­low of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.