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✠ Genesis 32
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GEN 32:1 Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.
GEN 32:2 And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.
GEN 32:3 And he sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir to the country of Edom:
GEN 32:4 And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and have been with him until this day.
GEN 32:5 I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.
GEN 32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.
GEN 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,
GEN 32:8 Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.
GEN 32:9 And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee,
GEN 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.
GEN 32:11 Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.
GEN 32:12 Thou didst say that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
GEN 32:13 And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau.
GEN 32:14 Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
GEN 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals.
GEN 32:16 And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.
GEN 32:17 And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee?
GEN 32:18 Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob’s: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau: and he cometh after us.
GEN 32:19 In like manner he commanded the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him.
GEN 32:20 And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us: for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.
GEN 32:21 So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp.
GEN 32:22 And rising early he took his two wives, and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.
GEN 32:23 And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,
GEN 32:24 He remained alone: and behold a man wrestled with him till morning.
GEN 32:25 And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.
GEN 32:26 And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go except thou bless me.
GEN 32:27 And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.
GEN 32:28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?
GEN 32:29 Jacob asked him, Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.
GEN 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.
GEN 32:31 And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.
GEN 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob’s thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.