Genesis 32 - Israeli Authorized Version

¹ And Yaakov went on his way, and the angels of Elohim met him.

² And when Yaakov saw them, he said, This is Elohim's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

³ And Yaakov sent messengers before him to Esav his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

⁴ And He Commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my YY Esav; Thy servant Yaakov 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 YY , that I may find grace in thy sight.

⁶ And the messengers returned to Yaakov, saying, We came to thy brother Esav, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

⁷ Then Yaakov 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 Esav come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

⁹ And Yaakov said, O Elohim of my father Avraham, and Elohim of my father Yitzchak, YY 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 Yarden; and now I am become two bands.

¹¹ Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esav: 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 Esav 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 Esav 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 Yaakov's; it is a present sent unto my YY Esav: 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 Esav, when ye find him.

²⁰ And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Yaakov 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 Yabok.

²³ And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

²⁴ And Yaakov 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 Yaakov'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, Yaakov.

²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Yaakov, but Yisrael: for as a prince hast thou power with Elohim and with men, and hast prevailed.

²⁹ And Yaakov 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 Yaakov called the name of the place Pni-El: for I have seen Elohim face to face, and my life is preserved.

³¹ And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

³² Therefore the children of Yisrael eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Yaakov's thigh in the sinew that shrank.