Genesis 32

Thomson(i) 1 and Jacob proceeded on his journey. And raising his eyes he saw a camp of God pitched and messengers of God were coming to meet him. 2 And when Jacob saw them he said, That is a camp of God, So he called the name of that place Camps. 3 Now Jacob had sent messengers before him to his brother Esau, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom, 4 and had given them a charge, saying, Thus shall you say to my lord Esau, Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban and staid till now. 5 And I have got oxen and asses and sheep and men servants and maid servants. And I have sent to give notice to my lord Esau, that thy servant may find favour in thy sight. 6 So the messengers returned to Jacob and said, We have been to thy brother Esau; and lo! he is coming to meet thee; and four hundred men with him. 7 Thereupon Jacob was greatly terrified and distressed. And he divided the people who were with him and the cattle and the camels and the flocks into two camps. 8 And Jacob said, If Esau come to the first camp and smite it, there will be another camp to escape. 9 Then Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and the God of my father Isaak, Thou, Lord, who saidst to me, Return to the land of thy nativity, and I will deal well with thee; 10 let me be satisfied with all the kindness and with all the truth which thou hast shewn to thy servant. For with this staff of mine I crossed the Jordan, but now I am become two camps. 11 Deliver me from the hand of my brother; from the hand of Esau; for I am afraid of him. Peradventure he may come and smite me and the mother with the children. 12 But thou hast said, I will deal well with thee and make thy seed like the sand of the sea, which, for multitude cannot be numbered. 13 So he halted there that night and took presents of what he had brought and sent to his brother Esau 14 two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes and twenty rams; 15 thirty milch camels with their thirty colts; forty cows and ten bulls; twenty asses and ten foles. 16 These he delivered to his servants, each drove by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me and make a small distance between drove and drove. 17 And he gave orders to the first saying, If my brother Esau meet thee and ask thee saying, To whom dost thou belong, and whither art thou going? And whose are these before thee? 18 thou shalt say, They belong to thy servant Jacob; presents which he hath sent to my lord Esau. And lo! he is behind us. 19 This charge he gave to the first, and to the second, and to the third, and to all who went before him after their droves, saying, In this manner speak to Esau when you meet him. 20 Moreover ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob is coming behind us. For he said, I will appease him with these previous gifts, and afterwards I will look him in the face, perhaps he will receive me favourably. 21 So the presents went on before him; but he lay that night in the camp. 22 And he arose in the night and took his two wives with the two handmaids and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of Jabok. 23 And when he had taken and conducted them over the brook he caused all belonging to him to cross over; 24 and Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him till the morning. 25 And when he saw that he could not prevail against him he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh became numb, in wrestling with him. 26 And he said to him, Let me go: for the dawn approached. But Jacob said I will not let thee go unless thou bless me. 27 And he said to him what is thy name? to which he replied, Jacob. 28 Thereupon he said to him, Thy name shall no more be Jacob only, but Israel also shall be thy name. Since thou hast been enabled to prevail with God, therefore with men thou shalt be mighty. 29 Then Jacob asked him saying, Tell me thy name. And he said why dost thou ask my name? Then he blessed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of that place, Face of God: for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved. 31 Now the sun was risen when he departed from Face of God: and he limped with his thigh. 32 For this cause even to this day the children of Israel do not eat the sinew which is in the hollow of the thigh which was numbed; for he had touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew and it was numbed.