Genesis:32

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* Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him ; * and when Jacob saw them he said , "This is God 's army !" So he called the name of that place Mahana 'im . * And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Se 'ir , the country of Edom , * instructing them , "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau : Thus says your servant Jacob , `I have sojourned with Laban , and stayed until now ; * and I have oxen , asses , flocks , menservants , and maidservants ; and I have sent to tell my lord , in order that I may find favor in your sight .'" * And the messengers returned to Jacob , saying , "We came to your brother Esau , and he is coming to meet you , and four hundred men with him ." * Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed ; and he divided the people that were with him , and the flocks and herds and camels , into two companies , * thinking , "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it , then the company which is left will escape ." * And Jacob said , "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac , O LORD who didst say to me , `Return to your country and to your kindred , and I will do you good ,' * I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant , for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan ; and now I have become two companies . * Deliver me , I pray thee , from the hand of my brother , from the hand of Esau , for I fear him , lest he come and slay us all , the mothers with the children . * But thou didst say , `I will do you good , and make your descendants as the sand of the sea , which cannot be numbered for multitude .'" * So he lodged there that night , and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau , * two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats , two hundred ewes and twenty rams , * thirty milch camels and their colts , forty cows and ten bulls , twenty she-asses and ten he-asses . * These he delivered into the hand of his servants , every drove by itself , and said to his servants , "Pass on before me , and put a space between drove and drove ." * He instructed the foremost , "When Esau my brother meets you , and asks you , `To whom do you belong ? Where are you going ? And whose are these before you ?' * then you shall say , `They belong to your servant Jacob ; they are a present sent to my lord Esau ; and moreover he is behind us .'" * He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves , "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him , * and you shall say , `Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us .'" For he thought , "I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me ." * So the present passed on before him ; and he himself lodged that night in the camp . * The same night he arose and took his two wives , his two maids , and his eleven children , and crossed the ford of the Jabbok . * He took them and sent them across the stream , and likewise everything that he had . * And Jacob was left alone ; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day . * When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob , he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and Jacob 's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him . * Then he said , "Let me go , for the day is breaking ." But Jacob said , "I will not let you go , unless you bless me ." * And he said to him , "What is your name ?" And he said , "Jacob ." * Then he said , "Your name shall no more be called Jacob , but Israel , for you have striven with God and with men , and have prevailed ." * Then Jacob asked him , "Tell me , I pray , your name ." But he said , "Why is it that you ask my name ?" And there he blessed him . * So Jacob called the name of the place Peni 'el , saying , "For I have seen God face to face , and yet my life is preserved ." * The sun rose upon him as he passed Penu 'el , limping because of his thigh . * Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh , because he touched the hollow of Jacob 's thigh on the sinew of the hip .

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