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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’ ” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’ |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’ ” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau: |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1530 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’ |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’ ” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.” |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon. |
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