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BOOK OF GENESIS
GENESIS 32
1So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.
2When he saw them, Jacob said, This is God's camp. So he named that place Mahanaim.
3Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
4He instructed them, saying, This is what you shall say to my lord Esau; Your servant Jacob said this, I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now.
5I have cattle, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to tell my lord, so that I might find favour in your sight.
6When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, We came to your brother Esau, he himself is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.
7Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; so he divided the people that were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.
8And he said, If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
9Then Jacob prayed, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you.
10I am not worthy of the least of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. With my staff alone I crossed this Jordan and now I have become two camps.
11Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I fear him; lest he come and strike me as well as the mothers with the children.
12For You said, I will surely do you good and will make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13So he lodged there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau.
14Two hundred female goats, and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15Thirty female camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.
16He entrusted them to his servants who divided them into herds and instructed them, Pass on ahead of me and keep some space between the herds.
17And he instructed the servants leading the first herd, saying, When my brother Esau meets you and asks, To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose herds are these before you?
18Then you will say, These are your servant Jacob's, it is a present sent to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.
19He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, and all that followed the herds, saying, You will say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
20You must also say, In fact your servant Jacob is behind us. For he thought, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.
21So the present went over before him, while Jacob himself lodged that night in the camp.
22During the night, Jacob took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.
23He took them and sent them over the brook, along with all his possessions.
24So Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until daybreak.
25And when He saw that He prevailed not against Jacob, He struck the socket of his hip, so that the socket of Jacob's hip was dislocated as He wrestled with him.
26And He said, Let Me go, for the day breaks. But Jacob replied, I will not let You go unless You bless me.
27So He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
28He said, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.
29Then Jacob asked Him, Please tell me Your name. And He said, Why do you ask My name? And He blessed him there.
30So Jacob named the place Peniel; Certainly I have seen God face to face and yet my life was spared.
31The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, limping on his hip.
32That is why to this day the children of Israel do not eat the thigh muscle that is attached to the hip socket, because He struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.
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- Relevance: A foundational Orthodox text, ideal for your site’s authoritative exegesis.
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