Gen 32
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And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God`s host: and he called the name of that
place Mahanaim.
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the
field of Edom.
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And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall you say to my lord Esau: Thus says your
servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:
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and I have oxen, and asses, [and] flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants: and
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.
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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.
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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;
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and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which
is left shall escape.
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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O YHWH, who
said to me, Return to your country, and to your kindred, and I will do you good:
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I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which
you have showed to your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and
now I am become two companies.
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Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I
fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.
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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.
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And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for
Esau his brother:
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two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and
ten foals.
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said
to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you,
saying, Whose are you? and where go you? and whose are these before you?
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then you shall say [They are] your servant Jacob`s; it is a present sent to my lord
Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.
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And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves,
saying, On this manner shall you speak to Esau, when you find him;
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and you shall say, 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; peradventure he will accept me.
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So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.
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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his
eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
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And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of
the day.
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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 strained, as he wrestled with him.
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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go, except
you bless me.
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And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
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And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for you have striven
with God and with men, and have prevailed.
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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.
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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, [said he], I have seen God face
to face, and my life is preserved.
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And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh.
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Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow
of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob`s thigh in the sinew
of the hip.