Genesis:32

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drb @Genesis:32:1 @Jacob also went on the journey he had begun : and the angels of God met him . drb @Genesis:32:2 @And when he saw them , he said : These are the camps of God , and he called the name of that place Mahanaim , that is , Camps . drb @Genesis:32:3 @And he sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir to the country of Edom : drb @Genesis:32:4 @And he commanded them , saying : Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau : Thus saith thy brother Jacob : I have sojourned with Laban , and have been with him until this day . drb @Genesis:32:5 @I have oxen , and asses , and sheep , and menservants , and womenservants : and now I send a message to my lord , that I may find favor in thy sight . drb @Genesis:32:6 @And the messengers returned to Jacob , saying : We came to Esau thy brother , and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men . drb @Genesis:32:7 @Then Jacob was greatly afraid ; and in his fear divided the people that was with him , and the flocks , and the sheep , and the oxen , and the camels , into two companies , drb @Genesis:32:8 @Saying : If Esau come to one company and destroy it , the other company that is left shall escape . drb @Genesis:32:9 @And Jacob said : O God of my father Abraham , and God of my father Isaac , O Lord , who saidst to me : Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth , and I will do well for thee , drb @Genesis:32:10 @I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies , and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant . With my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I return with two companies . drb @Genesis:32:11 @Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau , for I am greatly afraid of him : lest perhaps he come , and kill the mother with the children . drb @Genesis:32:12 @Thou didst say that thou wouldst do well by me , and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea , which cannot be numbered for the multitude . drb @Genesis:32:13 @And when he had slept there that night , he set apart , of the things which he had , presents for his brother Esau . drb @Genesis:32:14 @Two hundred she goats , twenty he goats , two hundred ewes , and twenty rams , drb @Genesis:32:15 @Thirty milch camels with their colts , forty kine , and twenty bulls , twenty she asses , and ten of their foals . drb @Genesis:32:16 @And he sent them by the hands of his servants , every drove by itself , and he said to his servants : Go before me , and let there be a space between drove and drove . drb @Genesis:32:17 @And he commanded the first , saying : If thou meet my brother Esau , and he ask thee : Whose art thou ? or whither goest thou ? or whose are these before thee ? drb @Genesis:32:18 @Thou shalt answer : Thy servant Jacob 's : he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau : and he cometh after us . drb @Genesis:32:19 @In like manner he commanded the second and the third , and all that followed with the droves , saying : Speak ye the same words to Esau , when ye find him . drb @Genesis:32:20 @And ye shall add : thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us : for he said : I will appease him with the presents that go before , and afterwards I will see him , perhaps he will be gracious to me . drb @Genesis:32:21 @So the presents went before him , but himself lodged that night in the camp . drb @Genesis:32:22 @And rising early he took his two wives , and his two handmaids , with his eleven sons , and passed over the ford of Jaboc . drb @Genesis:32:23 @And when all things were brought over that belonged to him , drb @Genesis:32:24 @He remained alone : and behold a man wrestled with him till morning . drb @Genesis:32:25 @And when he saw that he could not overcome him , he touched the sinew of his thigh , and forthwith it shrank . drb @Genesis:32:26 @And he said to him : Let me go , for it is break of day . He answered : I will not let thee go except thou bless me . drb @Genesis:32:27 @And he said : What is thy name ? He answered : Jacob . drb @Genesis:32:28 @But he said : Thy name shall not be called Jacob , but Israel : for if thou hast been strong against God , how much more shalt thou prevail against men ? drb @Genesis:32:29 @Jacob asked him , Tell me by what name art thou called ? He answered : Why dost thou ask my name ? And he blessed him in the same place . drb @Genesis:32:30 @And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel , saying : I have seen God face to face , and my soul has been saved . drb @Genesis:32:31 @And immediately the sun rose upon him , after he was past Phanuel ; but he halted on his foot . drb @Genesis:32:32 @Therefore the children of Israel , unto this day , eat not the sinew , that shrank in Jacob 's thigh : because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank .

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