 1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 When Jacob saw them he said, This is God's camp. And he called the name of that place Refuge. 3 Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 He commanded them saying, So shall you speak to my lord Esau: your servant Jacob says thus, I have lived with Laban and stayed until now. 5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men servants, and women servants. I have sent to tell my lord so that I may find grace in your sight. 6 The messengers returned to Jacob saying, We came to your brother Esau, and also he comes to meet you, and 400 men with him. 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds, and the camels, into two bands. 8 He said, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then the other company that is left shall escape. 9 Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth that you have done to your servant. For with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I have become two bands. 11 Deliver me, I ask you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mother with the children. 12 You said, I will surely do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea that cannot be numbered for multitude. 13 He lodged there that night and he took of what came to his hand, a present for Esau his brother 14 200 she goats, 20 he goats, 200 ewes, and 20 rams, 15 30 milk camels with their colts, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 donkeys, and 10 foals. 16 He delivered into the hands of his servants, every drove by themselves. And he said to his servants, Pass over in front of me and put a space between drove and drove. 17 He commanded the foremost saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you saying, To whom do you belong? Where do you go? Whose are these before you? 18 Then you shall say, your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau and, behold, he also is behind us. 19 So he commanded the second and the third and all who followed the droves saying, You shall speak to Esau in this way when you find him. 20 You shall say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me. 21 The present went over before him. And he himself lodged that night in the camp. 22 He rose that night, and took his two wives, and his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. 23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over what he had. 24 Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him there until the break of day. 25 When He saw that He did not prevail 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 He said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go except you bless me. 27 He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. 28 He said, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel. For you have struggled+ with God and with men and have prevailed. 29 Jacob asked and said, I ask you to reveal your name. He said, Why do you ask for my name? Then He blessed him there. 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel. For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 31 As he passed over Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped upon his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, until this day, because He touched Jacob's hip socket, the sinew of the thigh.
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