• Genesis 32:9

    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:

  • Genesis 32:10

    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.

  • Genesis 32:11

    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 withc the children.

  • Genesis 32:12

    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.

  • Genesis 32:13

    And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

  • Genesis 32:14

    Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

  • Genesis 32:15

    Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

  • Genesis 32:16

    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.

  • Genesis 32:17

    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?

  • Genesis 32:18

    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.

  • Genesis 32:19

    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.

  • Genesis 32:20

    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.d

  • Genesis 32:21

    So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

  • Genesis 32:22

    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.

  • Genesis 32:23

    And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

  • Genesis 32:24

    And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breakinge of the day.

  • Genesis 32:25

    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.

  • Genesis 32:26

    And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

  • Genesis 32:27

    And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

  • Genesis 32:28

    And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel:f for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

  • Genesis 32:29

    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.

  • Genesis 32:30

    And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel:g for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

  • Genesis 32:31

    And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

  • Genesis 32:32

    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.

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