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

32:2 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God`s host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

32:3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

32:4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: `This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.

32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. 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. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

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

32:8 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

32:9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, `Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.`

32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

32:11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

32:12 You said, `I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can`t be numbered because there are so many.`"

32:13 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

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

32:15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten foals.

32:16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

32:17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, `Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?`

32:18 Then you shall say, `They are your servant, Jacob`s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.`"

32:19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

32:20 You shall say, `Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.`" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

32:21 So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

32:22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

32:23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

32:24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

32:25 When he saw that he didn`t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob`s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

32:26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won`t let you go, unless you bless me."

32:27 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

32:28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called `Jacob,` but, `Israel,` for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

32:29 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

32:30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

32:31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.