Genesis Chapter 32 (Index)

001  And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

002  And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

003  And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

004  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:

005  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.

006  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.

007  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;

008  And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

009  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:

010  I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

011  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.

012  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.

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

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

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

016  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.

017  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?

018  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.

019  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.

020  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.

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

022  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.

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

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

025  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.

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

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

028  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.

029  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.

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

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

032  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.