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¹ And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.² And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

³ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.⁴ And he commanded them, saying, Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your slave Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:⁵ and I have oxen, and donkeys, [and] flocks, and male slaves, and female slaves: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and moreover he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;⁸ and he said, If Esau comes to the one company, and smites it, then the company which is left shall escape.

⁹ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, Return to your country, and to your kindred, and I will do you good:¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the loving-kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your slave; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.¹¹ Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him. Or else, he will come and smite me, from mother to sons.¹² And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall be too many to count.

¹³ And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother:¹⁴ two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,¹⁵ thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten foals.¹⁶ And he delivered them into the hand of his slaves, every drove by itself, and said to his slaves, Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove.¹⁷ And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, saying, Whose are you? and where do you go? and whose are these before you?¹⁸ then you shall say [They are] your slave Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord Esau: and, look, he also is behind us.¹⁹ And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, In this manner you shall speak to Esau, when you find him;²⁰ and you shall say, Moreover, look, your slave 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; perhaps he will accept me.²¹ So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.²² And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two female slaves, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.²³ And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

²⁴ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.²⁵ And when he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him.²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me.²⁷ And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.²⁸ And he said, Your name will not be Jacob anymore, but Israel: for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.²⁹ And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray you, your name. And he said, Why is it that you ask for my name? And he blessed him there.³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, [he said], I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.³¹ And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped on his thigh.³² Therefore the sons of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.