Genesis 32 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Yaʽ

² And when Yaʽ

³ And Yaʽ

⁴ and he commanded them, saying, “Say this to my master Ě

⁵ “And I have bulls, and donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants. And I have sent to inform my master, to find favour in your eyes.” ’ ”

⁶ So the messengers returned to Yaʽ

⁷ And Yaʽ

⁸ and he said, “If Ě

⁹ And Yaʽ

¹⁰ “I do not deserve the least of all the kind acts and all the truth which You have shown Your servant, for I passed over this Yardĕ

¹¹ “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Ě

¹² “For You said, ‘I shall certainly do good to you, and shall make your seed as the sand of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’ ”

¹³ And he spent the night there, and took what came to his hand as a present for Ě

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

¹⁵ thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

¹⁶ And he gave into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between drove and drove.”

¹⁷ And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Ě

¹⁸ then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Yaʽ

¹⁹ So he commanded the second, and the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, “Speak to Ě

²⁰ and you shall say, ‘Also look, your servant Yaʽ

²¹ And the present passed over before him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

²² And he rose up that night and took his two wives, and his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Yabboq.

²³ And he took them and sent them over the stream, and sent over what he had.

²⁴ And Yaʽ

²⁵ And when He saw that He did not overcome him, He touched the socket of his hip. And the socket of Yaʽ

²⁶ And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I am not letting You go until You have blessed me!”

²⁷ So He asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Yaʽ

²⁸ And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽ

²⁹ And Yaʽ

³⁰ And Yaʽ

³¹ And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penu’ĕ

³² That is why the children of Yisra’ĕ