Genesis 32
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- And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him.
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- And when Jacob saw them, he said, 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
unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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- And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto
my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and
stayed there until now:
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- And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy
sight.
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- 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.
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- 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;
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- And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it,
then the other 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, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and
to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And he lodged there that same night; and took of that
which came to his hand 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 with their colts, forty kine, 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 themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me,
and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
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- 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?
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- Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is
a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- So went the present over before him: and 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 womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
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- And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent
over that 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 out of
joint, as he wrestled with him.
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- And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he
said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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- And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said,
Jacob.
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- And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.
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- 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.
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- And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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- And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and
he halted upon his thigh.
- 32
- Therefore the children of Israel 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.
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