Genesis32
1/and Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2/And when Jacob saw then, he said, This is God`s host; and 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 Edom.
4/And he commanded them, saying, thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; thy sevant Jacob saith thus ,I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
5/And I have oxen, and asses, flocks,and mensservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tall my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
6/And the messngers returned to Jacob, sayined to Jacob, saying, We camr to thy brother Esau, and also he comerh 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 com pany which is lefr shall eacape.
9/And Jacob said, O god od my dather 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 od the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my sttaff 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 s\cannot be numbered for multitude.
13/And he lodged there that same nlght; and took of that which came to his hand a pressnt for Esau his brother;
14/Two hundred she goats, and tqenty he goars, two hundred ewes,and twenty rams,
15thirty 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 berwixt drove and drove.
17/and he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee. and sajeth thee , saying, whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
then thou shalt say, they be thy servant Jacob`s it is a present sent into my lord Esau: and , behold, also he is behind us.
19/and so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that follwed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20/and say ye moreover, Bwhold, 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 race; peeradventure 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 wom\ea, and his two womenservnts, 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 ofjointm as he wrestled with him.
26/And he said, Let me go for the day breaketh, and he said, I will not let htee go, except thou bless me.
27/And he said unto him, what is thy anme? And he said , Jacob.
28/And he said, Thy name shall be called on mare Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29/and Jacob asked him and saidmthell 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 presserved.
31/And as he passed over penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32/therefore the childen of Israel eat not of the simew which shank, 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.