Genesis 32 — ENGLXXUP

32 Verse 1 And Laban rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban having turned back, departed to his place. ^{Verse 2} And Jacob departed for his journey; and having looked up, he saw the host of God encamped; and the angels of God met him. ^{Verse 3} And Jacob said, when he saw them, This is the Camp of God; and he called the name of that place, Encampments. ^{Verse 4} And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom. ^{Verse 5} And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob; I have sojourned with Laban and tarried until now. ^{Verse 6} And there were born to me oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants and maidservants; and I sent to tell my lord Esau, that thy servant might find grace in thy sight. ^{Verse 7} And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and lo! he comes to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. ^{Verse 8} And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps. ^{Verse 9} And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and smite it, the other camp shall be in safety. ^{Verse 10} And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, thou art he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of thy birth, and I will do thee good. ^{Verse 11} Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which thou hast wrought with thy servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two camps. ^{Verse 12} Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest haply he should come and smite me, and the mother upon the children. ^{Verse 13} But thou saidst, I will do thee good, and will make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude. ^{Verse 14} And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried with him, and sent out to Esau his brother, ^{Verse 15} two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams, ^{Verse 16} milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts. ^{Verse 17} And he gave them to his servants each drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove. ^{Verse 18} And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and he ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither wouldest thou go, and whose are these possessions advancing before thee? ^{Verse 19} Thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob’s; he hath sent gifts to my lord Esau, and lo! he is behind us. ^{Verse 20} And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him; ^{Verse 21} and ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterward I will behold his face, for peradventure he will accept me. ^{Verse 22} So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp. ^{Verse 23} And he rose up in that night, and took his two wives and his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. ^{Verse 24} And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions. ^{Verse 25} And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning. ^{Verse 26} And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob’s thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him. ^{Verse 27} And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. ^{Verse 28} And he said to him, What is thy name? and he answered, Jacob. ^{Verse 29} And he said to him, Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; for thou hast prevailed with God, and shalt be mighty with men. ^{Verse 30} And Jacob asked and said, Tell me thy name; and he said, Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there. ^{Verse 31} And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; For, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved. ^{Verse 32} And the sun rose upon him, when he passed the Face of God; and he halted upon his thigh. ^{Verse 33} Therefore the children of Israel will by no means eat of the sinew which was benumbed, which is on the broad part of the thigh, until this day, because the angel touched the broad part of the thigh of Jacob—even the sinew which was benumbed.