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The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis, Chapter 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.
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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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