3 And Jacob sent messengers before
him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 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: 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. 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. 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; 8 And said, If Esau come to the one
company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
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:
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. 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. 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.
13 And he lodged there
that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his
brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and
twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls,
twenty she asses, and ten foals. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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.
21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the
company. 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. 23 And he
took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 And Jacob was
left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 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. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not
let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name?
And he said, Jacob. 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. 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. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God
face to face, and my life is preserved. 31 And as he passed over Peniel the sun
rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 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.
1And Jacob lifted
up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men.
And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and
her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he passed over
before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to
his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck,
and kissed him: and they wept.
5 And he lifted up his
eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And
he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the
handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And
Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came
Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.