1: And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. |
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2: 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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4: 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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5: 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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6: 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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7: 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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8: 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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9: 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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10: 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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11: 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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12: 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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13: 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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14: Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and
twenty rams, |
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15: Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls,
twenty she asses, and ten foals. |
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16: 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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17: 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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18: 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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19: 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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20: 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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21: So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
night in the company. |
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22: 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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23: And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had. |
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24: And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until
the breaking of the day. |
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25: 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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26: 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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27: And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. |
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28: 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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29: 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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30: 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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31: And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted
upon his thigh. |
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32: 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. |