Genesis 32
1AND Laban departed and went to his place and Jacob proceeded on his journey. And raising his eyes he saw a camp of God pitched and messengers of God were coming to meet him.
2And when Jacob saw them he said, That is a camp of God, So he called the name of that place Camps.
3Now Jacob had sent messengers before him to his brother Esau, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom,
4and had given them a charge, saying, Thus shall you say to my lord Esau, Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban and staid till now.
5And I have got oxen and asses and sheep and men servants and maid servants. And I have sent to give notice to my lord Esau, that thy servant may find favour in thy sight.
6So the messengers returned to Jacob and said, We have been to thy brother Esau; and lo! he is coming to meet thee; and four hundred men with him.
7Thereupon Jacob was greatly terrified and distressed. And he divided the people who were with him and the cattle and the camels and the flocks into two camps.
8And Jacob said, If Esau come to the first camp and smite it, there will be another camp to escape.
9Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and the God of my father Isaak, Thou, O Lord, who saidst to me, Return to the land of thy nativity, and I will deal well with thee;
10let me be satisfied with all the kindness and with all the truth which thou hast shewn to thy servant. For with this staff of mine I crossed the Jordan, but now I am become two camps.
11Deliver me from the hand of my brother—from the hand of Esau; for I am afraid of him. Peradventure he may come and smite me and the mother with the children.
12But thou hast said, I will deal well with thee and make thy seed like the sand of the sea, which, for multitude cannot be numbered.
13So he halted there that night and took presents of what he had brought and sent to his brother Esau
14two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes and twenty rams;
15thirty milch camels with their thirty colts; forty cows and ten bulls; twenty asses and ten foals.
16These he delivered to his servants, each drove by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me and make a small distance between drove and drove.
17And he gave orders to the first saying, If my brother Esau meet thee and ask thee saying, To whom dost thou belong, and whither art thou going? And whose are these before thee?
18thou shalt say, They belong to thy servant Jacob—presents which he hath sent to my lord Esau. And lo! he is behind us.
19This charge he gave to the first, and to the second, and to the third, and to all who went before him after their droves, saying, In this manner speak to Esau when you meet him.
20Moreover ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob is coming behind us. For he said, I will appease him with these previous gifts, and afterwards I will look him in the face, perhaps he will receive me favourably.
21So the presents went on before him; but he lay that night in the camp.
22And he arose in the night and took his two wives with the two handmaids and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of Jabok.
23And when he had taken and conducted them over the brook he caused all belonging to him to cross over;
24and Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him till the morning.
25And when he saw that he could not prevail against him he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh became numb, in wrestling with him.
26And he said to him, Let me go: for the dawn approached. But Jacob said I will not let thee go unless thou bless me.
27And he said to him what is thy name? to which he replied, Jacob.
28Thereupon he said to him, Thy name shall no more be Jacob only, but Israel also shall be thy name. Since thou hast been enabled to prevail with God, therefore with men thou shalt be mighty.
29Then Jacob asked him saying, Tell me thy name. And he said, Why dost thou ask my name? Then he blessed him there.
30And Jacob called the name of that place, Face of God: for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.
31Now the sun was risen when he departed from Face of God: and he limped with his thigh.
32For this cause even to this day the children of Israel do not eat the sinew which is in the hollow of the thigh which was numbed; for he had touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh on the sinew and it was numbed.