1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of YAHUAH met him.
2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] YAHUAH's host: and he called the
name of that place Mahanaim.
3 ¶ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of
Seir, the country of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my master Esau; Thy
servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until
now:
5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I
have sent to tell my master, that I may find grace in thy sight.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and
also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that
[was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other
company which is left shall escape.
9 ¶ And Jacob said, O YAHUAH of my father Abraham, and YAHUAH of my father
Isaac, YAHUAH which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred,
and I will deal well with thee:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which
thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan;
and now I am become two bands.
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau:
for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and] the mother with the
children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of
the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 ¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his
hand 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 with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she
asses, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by
themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space
betwixt drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and
asketh thee, saying, Whose [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 master Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us.
19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the
droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I
will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see
his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the
company.
22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants,
and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that 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 prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of
his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with
him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let
thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but YisraYAH: for as a
prince hast thou power with YAHUAH and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he
said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him
there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen YAHUAH face to
face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his
thigh.
32 Therefore the children of YisraYAH eat not [of] the sinew which shrank, which
[is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow
of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.