Genesis 32

¹And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them, and Laban went and returned to his place.

²And Jacob went on his way, and angels of God met him.

³And Jacob said when he saw them, ‘This is the camp of God,’ and he named the place Mahanaim.

⁴Jacob sent angels ahead of him to his brother Esau, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

⁵And he commanded them, saying, ‘So shall you say to my master to Esau, 'Thus said your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban, and I have tarried until now.

⁶And I have acquired oxen and donkeys, flocks, manservants, and maidservants, and I have sent to tell [this] to my master, to find favor in your eyes.' ‘

⁷The angels returned to Jacob, saying, ‘We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming toward you, and four hundred men are with him.’

⁸Jacob became very frightened and was distressed; so he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and the cattle and the camels into two camps.

⁹And he said, ‘If Esau comes to one camp and strikes it down, the remaining camp will escape.’

¹⁰And Jacob said, ‘O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, Who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your birthplace, and I will do good to you.'

¹¹I have become small from all the kindnesses and from all the truth that You have rendered Your servant, for with my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

¹²Now deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he come and strike me, [and strike] a mother with children.

¹³And You said, 'I will surely do good with you, and I will make your seed [as numerous] as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of multitude.'‘

¹⁴So he lodged there on that night, and he took from what came into his hand a gift for his brother Esau:

¹⁵Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

¹⁶Thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she donkeys and ten he donkeys.

¹⁷And he gave into the hands of his servants each herd individually, and he said to his servants, ‘Pass on ahead of me and make a space between one herd and another herd.’

¹⁸And he commanded the first one, saying, ‘When my brother Esau meets you, and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and for whom are these before you?'

¹⁹You shall say, '[I belong] to your servant Jacob; it is a gift sent to my master, to Esau, and behold, he himself is behind us.'‘

²⁰And he commanded also the second one, also the third one, also all those who followed the herds, saying, ‘In this manner shall you speak to Esau when you meet him.

²¹And you shall say, 'Also, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.' ‘ For he said, ‘I will appease his anger with the gift that is going before me, and afterwards I will see his face, perhaps he will favor me.’

²²So the gift passed on before him, and he lodged that night in the camp.

²³And he arose during that night, and he took his two wives and his two maidservants and his eleven children, and he crossed the ford of [the] Jabbok.

²⁴And he took them and brought them across the stream, and he took across what was his.

²⁵And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.

²⁶When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob's hip became dislocated as he wrestled with him.

²⁷And he (the angel) said, ‘Let me go, for dawn is breaking,’ but he (Jacob) said, ‘I will not let you go unless you have blessed me.’

²⁸So he said to him, ‘What is your name?’ and he said, ‘Jacob.’

²⁹And he said, ‘Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have commanding power with [an angel of] God and with men, and you have prevailed.’

³⁰And Jacob asked and said, ‘Now tell me your name,’ and he said, ‘Why is it that you ask for my name?’ And he blessed him there.

³¹And Jacob named the place Peniel, for [he said,] ‘I saw an angel face to face, and my soul was saved.’

³²And the sun rose for him when he passed Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.

³³Therefore, the children of Israel may not eat the displaced tendon, which is on the socket of the hip, until this day, for he touched the socket of Jacob's hip, in the hip sinew.