Genesis, Chapter 32:
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Verses from Genesis, Chapter 32 of the Book of Genesis of the Bible.
Jacob prepares to meet Esau
- 51. Jacob continued on his way and the angels of God met him.
- 52. When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp!” Therefore, he named that place Mahanaim.
- 53. Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
- 54. He gave them this command: “Say this to my lord Esau: This is what Jacob says: 'I lived as a foreigner with Laban and have stayed there until now.
- 55. I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, menservants and maidservants. I now send this message to my lord, to obtain his favor'”.
- 6. The messengers returned to Jacob, bringing him the news that Esau was coming to meet him, accompanied by four hundred men.
- 7. With great fear and anguish, Jacob divided the people who accompanied him into two groups, as well as the flocks, oxen and camels.
- 8. He thought, “If Esau attacks one group and destroys it, the other group will escape.”
- 9. Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will treat you well,'
- 10. I am not worthy of all the kindness and loyalty with which you treated your servant. When I crossed the Jordan, I only had my staff, but now I have two caravans.
- 11. I ask you to deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him, that he will come and attack me, both mothers and children.
- 12. But you said, 'I will certainly do you good, and I will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of its quantity.'”
- 13. Jacob spent there that night, and from what he had he separated a gift for his brother Esau:
- 14. two hundred goats, twenty goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams,
- 15. thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten donkeys.
- 16. He gave them to the care of his servants, each flock separately, and said to them, “Go ahead of me and leave space between the flocks.”
- 17. And he commanded the first, “When my brother Esau finds you and asks, 'Who do you belong to?' Where are you going? And whose animals are these in front of you?',
- 18. you will answer, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift he is sending to my master Esau. Jacob himself is coming after us.'
- 19. He also gave the same order to the second, the third, and all the others behind the flocks: “This is how you should speak to Esau when you meet him.
- 20. And say to him, 'Your servant Jacob is coming after us.'” For he thought: “If I placate him with gifts before my arrival, perhaps he will welcome me.”
- 21. So those present went before him, and Jacob spent that night in the camp.
Jacob wrestles with God
- 22. That night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of Jabbok.
- 23. After he had made them cross the stream, he made everything that belonged to him cross.
- 24. But Jacob was left alone, and a man fought with him until daybreak.
- 25. When the man saw that he could not overcome him, he touched his hip joint; and Jacob's hip joint dislocated as he wrestled with him.
- 26. Then the man said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- 27. Then the man asked him, “What is your name? “Jacob,” he replied.
- 28. Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”
- 29. Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you want to know my name? ” And blessed him there.
- 30. Jacob called the place Peniel, for he said, “I saw the face of God face to face, and my life was spared.”
- 31. The sun was rising when Jacob crossed Peniel, limping because of his hip.
- 32. Therefore, the Israelites do not eat the tendon near the hip joint, because the man had touched Jacob's hip joint there.
