Genesis:32

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* And Jacob went on his way , and the angels of God met him . * And when Jacob saw them , he said , This is God 's host : and he called the name of that place Mahanaim . * 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 all of you speak unto my lord Esau ; Your servant Jacob says thus , I have sojourned with Laban , and stayed there until now : * And I have oxen , and asses , flocks , and male servants , and female servants : and I have sent to tell my lord , that I may find grace in your sight . * And the messengers returned to Jacob , saying , We came to your brother Esau , and also he comes to meet you , and four hundred men with him . * 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 ; * And said , If Esau come to the one company , and strike it , then the other company which is left shall escape . * And Jacob said , O God of my father Abraham , and God of my father Isaac , the LORD which said unto me , Return unto your country , and to your kindred , and I will deal well with you : * I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies , and of all the truth , which you have showed unto your servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands . * Deliver me , I pray you , from the hand of my brother , from the hand of Esau : for I fear him , lest he will come and strike me , and the mother with the children . * And you said , I will surely do you good , and make your seed as the sand of the sea , which cannot be numbered for multitude . * And he lodged there that same night ; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother ; * Two hundred she goats , and twenty he goats , two hundred ewes , and twenty rams , * Thirty milk giving camels with their colts , forty cattle , and ten bulls , twenty she asses , and ten foals . * 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 between drove and drove . * And he commanded the foremost , saying , When Esau my brother meet you , and asks you , saying , Whose are you ? and where go you ? and whose are these before you ? * Then you shall say , They be your servant Jacob 's ; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau : and , behold , also he is behind us . * And so commanded he the second , and the third , and all that followed the droves , saying , On this manner shall all of you speak unto Esau , when all of you find him . * And say all of you moreover , Behold , your servant Jacob is behind us . For he said , I will appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterward I will see his face ; possibly he will accept of me . * So went the present over before him : and himself lodged that night in the company . * And he rose up that night , and took his two wives , and his two female servants , and his eleven sons , and passed over the ford Jabbok . * And he took them , and sent them over the brook , and sent over that 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 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 . * And he said , Let me go , for the day breaks . And he said , I will not let you go , except you bless me . * And he said unto him , What is your name ? And he said , Jacob . * And he said , Your name shall be called no more Jacob , but Israel : for as a prince have you power with God and with men , and have prevailed . * And Jacob asked him , and said , Tell me , I pray you , your name . And he said , Wherefore is it that you do ask after my name ? And he blessed him there . * And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen God face to face , and my life is preserved . * And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him , and he halted upon his thigh . * 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 .

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