32:1  Now as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him.

32:2  Jacob said when he saw them, "This we regard as God's camp." So he named that place Mahanaim.

32:3  Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

32:4  He also commanded them saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;

32:5  I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight."'"

32:6  The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he comes to meet you, and four hundred men accompany him."

32:7  Then Jacob felt greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who accompanied him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;

32:8  for he said, "If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which remains will escape."

32:9  Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ' Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,'

32:10  I feel unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

32:11  "Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

32:12  "For You said, 'I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which appears too great to number.'"

32:13  So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

32:14  two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

32:15  thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

32:16  He delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between droves."

32:17  He commanded the one in front, saying, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where do you go, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?'

32:18   then you shall say, 'These belong to your servant Jacob; he gives it as a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also comes behind us.'"

32:19  Then he commanded also the second and the third, and all those who followed the droves, saying, "After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;

32:20  and you shall say, 'Behold, your servant Jacob also comes behind us.'" For he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me."

32:21  So the present passed on before him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.

32:22  Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

32:23  He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.

32:24  Then Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

32:25  When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob's thigh became dislocated while he wrestled with him.

32:26  Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn breaks." But he said, " I will not let you go unless you bless me."

32:27  So he said to him, "What name do you go by?" And he said, "Jacob."

32:28  He said, "You shall no longer have the name of Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed."

32:29  Then Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why do you ask my name?" And he blessed him there.

32:30  So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, " I have seen God face to face, yet He has preserved my life ."

32:31  Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he limped on his thigh.

32:32  Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which appears on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.