Genesis 32:9-32
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Genesis32v9t32
9: Jacob prayed, “God of my Father Abraham, God of my Father Isaac, Lord at whose bidding I came back to my own country and to my kindred, and who promised me prosperity,
10: I am not worthy of all the true and steadfast love to which you have shown to me your servant. The last time I crossed the Jordan I owned nothing but the staff in my hand; now I have two camps.
11: Save me I pray from my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and destroy me, he will spare neither mother nor child.
12: But you said, “I shall make you prosper and your descendants will be like the sands of the sea, beyond all counting.”
13: After spending the night there Jacob chose a gift for his brother Esau form the herds he had with him:
14: two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15: thirty milch-camels with their young, forty cows and ten young bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten donkeys.
16: He put each drove into the charge of a servant and said, “Go on ahead of me, and leave gaps between one drove and the next.
17: To the first servant he gave these instructions: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks you who your master is and where you are going and whose animals you are driving,
18: you are to say, “They belong to your servant Jacob, who sends them as a gift to my Lord Esau: he himself is coming behind us.”
19: He gave the same instructions to the second, to the third and all the drovers, telling each to say the same thing to Esau when they met him.
20: And they were to add, “Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.” Jacob thought, “I shall appease him with the gift that I have sent on ahead, and afterwards, when we come face to face perhaps he will receive me kindly.
21: So Jacob’s gift went on ahead of him, while he himself stayed that night at Mahaneh.
22: During the night, Jacob rose, and taking his two wives, and his two slave girls, and his eleven sons, he crossed the ford of Jabbok
23: After he had sent them across the wadi with all that he had,
24: Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him their till daybreak.
25: When the man saw that he could not get the better of Jacob he struck him in the hollow of his thigh, so that Jacob’s hip was dislocated as they wrestled.
26: The man said, “Let me go for day is breaking,” but Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me”
27: The man asked, “What is your name?” “Jacob”, he answered.
28: the man said, your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with mortals and have prevailed.
29 Jacob said, tell me your name I pray, He replied, “Why do you ask my name? But he gave him his blessing there
30: Jacob called the place Peniel, “because”, he said,”I have see God face to face yet my life has been spared.”