32 1 God comforteth Jacob by his Angels. 9, 10 He prayeth unto God confessing his unworthiness. 13 He sendeth presents unto Esau. 24, 28 He wrestled with the Angel who nameth him Israel.

¹ Now Jacob went forth on his journey, and ^(A)the Angels of God met him.

² And when Jacob saw them, he said, ^[a]This is God’s host: and he called the name of the same place ^[b]Mahanaim.

³ Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir into the country of Edom.

⁴ To whom he gave commandment, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my ^[c]lord Esau: thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have been a stranger with Laban, and tarried unto this time.

⁵ I have beeves also and asses, sheep, and men servants, and women servants, and have sent to show my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

⁶ ¶ So the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, We came unto thy brother Esau, and he also cometh against thee and four hundred men with him.

⁷ Then Jacob was ^[d]greatly afraid, and was sore troubled, and divided the people that was with him, and the sheep, and the beeves, and the camels into two companies.

⁸ For he said, If Esau come to the one company and smite it, the other company shall escape.

⁹ ¶ Moreover Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Lord, which ^(B)saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good.

¹⁰ I am not ^[e]worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant: for with my ^[f]staff came I over this Jordan, and now have I gotten two bands.

¹¹ I pray thee, Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the ^[g]mother upon the children.

¹² And thou saidest, I will surely do to thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

¹³ ¶ And he tarried there that same night and took of that which came to hand, a ^[h]present for Esau his brother:

¹⁴ Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams:

¹⁵ Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bullocks, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

¹⁶ So he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves, and said unto his servants, Pass before me, and put a space between drove and drove.

¹⁷ And he commanded the foremost, saying, If my brother Esau meet thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose servant art thou? And whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

¹⁸ Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob’s: it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and behold, he himself also is behind us.

¹⁹ So likewise commanded he the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, After this manner, ye shall speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

²⁰ And ye shall say moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob cometh after us. (for he thought, I ^[i]will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face: it may be that he will ^[j]accept me.)

²¹ So went the present before him: but he tarried that night with the company.

²² And he rose up the same night, and took his two wives, and his two maids, and his eleven children, and went over the ford Jabbok.

²³ And he took them, and sent them over the river, and sent over that he had.

²⁴ ¶ Now when Jacob was left himself alone, there wrestled a ^[k]man with him unto the breaking of the day.

²⁵ And he saw that he could not ^[l]prevail against him: therefore he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was loosed, as he wrestled with him.

²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the morning appeareth. Who answered, ^(C)I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

²⁷ Then said he unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

²⁸ And said he, ^(D)Thy name shall be called Jacob no more, but Israel: because thou hast had ^[m]power with God, thou shalt also prevail with men.

²⁹ And Jacob demanded, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore now dost thou ask my name? and he blessed him there.

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place, Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and ^[n]my life is preserved.

³¹ And the sun rose up to him as he passed Peniel, and he ^[o]halted upon his thigh.

³² Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank in the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the sinew that shrank in the hollow of Jacob’s thigh.