Genesis:32

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* And Jacob went on his way , and there met him angels of God . * And when Jacob saw them , he said , This is a host of God ; and he called the name of that place Machanayim . * And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir , the country of Edom . * And he commanded them , saying , Thus shall ye speak unto my lord , to Esau , Thus hath said thy servant Jacob , With Laban have I sojourned , and stayed until now . * And I have acquired oxen , and asses , flocks , and men –servants , and women –servants ; and I send now to tell my lord , to find grace in thy eyes . * And the messengers returned to Jacob , saying , We came to thy brother , to Esau , and also he cometh to meet thee , and four hundred men with him . * Then Jacob was greatly afraid , and he felt distressed ; and he divided the people that were with him , and the flocks , and the herds , and the camels , into two bands . * And he said , If Esau should come to the one band and smite it , then the other band which is left may escape . * And Jacob said , O God of my father Abraham , and God of my father Isaac , the Lord who saidst unto me , Return unto thy country , and to thy birthplace , and I will deal well with thee : * I am not worthy of all the kindness , and of all the truth , which thou hast shown unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands . * 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 , the mother with the children . * 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 . * And he lodged there that same night ; and he took of that which he carried with him a present for Esau his brother : * Two hundred she –goats , and twenty he –goats , two hundred ewes , and twenty rams . * Thirty milch camels with their colts , forty cows , and ten bulls , twenty she –asses , and ten foals . * And he delivered them into the hand of his servants , every drove by itself ; and he said unto his servants , Pass on before me , and put a space between drove and drove . * And he commanded the foremost , saying , When Esau my brother should meet thee , and ask thee , saying , Whose art thou ? and whither art thou going ? and for whom are these before thee ? * Then shalt thou say , They belong to thy servant , to Jacob ; it is a present sent unto my lord , to Esau ; and , behold , also , he is himself behind us . * And so he commanded also the second , also the third , as also all that followed the droves , saying , After this manner shall ye speak unto Esau , when ye find him . * And say ye moreover , Behold , also 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 receive me kindly . * The present went thus on before him ; and he lodged himself that night in the camp . * And he rose up that night , and he took his two wives , and his two women –servants , and his eleven sons , and passed over the ford of the Yabbok . * And he took them , and sent them over the stream and sent over what he had . * And Jacob was left alone ; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day . * And when he saw that he could net prevail against him , he struck against the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob ’s thigh was put out of joint , as he was wrestling with him . * And he said , Let me go , for the day hath dawned . And he said , I will not let thee go until thou hast blessed me . * And he said unto him , What is thy name ? and he said , Jacob . * And he said , Not Jacob shall any more be called thy name , but Israel ; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men , and hast prevailed . * 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 . * And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen an angel of God face to face , and my life hath been preserved . * And the sun rose unto him as he passed by Penuel , and he halted upon his thigh . * Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew which shrank , which is upon the hollow of the thigh , unto this day ; because he struck against the hollow of Jacob ’s thigh on the sinew that shrank .

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