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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 As Jacob went on his way, angels from God met him. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As he was watching them, Jacob said, "This must be God's camp," so he named that place Mahanaim. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him into the land of Seir (that is, into the territory of Edom) to meet his brother Esau. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He instructed them, "This is what you are to say to my master Esau: 'Your servant Jacob told me to tell you, "I've journeyed to stay with Laban and I've remained there until now. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I now have cattle, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants. I'm sending this message to you, sir, so that you'll show favor to me."'" |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Later, the messengers returned to Jacob and reported, "We went to your brother Esau. He's now coming to meet you—and he has 400 men with him!" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Feeling mounting terror and distress, Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, doing the same with the flocks, the cattle, and the camels. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Jacob was thinking, "If Esau comes to one group and attacks it, then the remaining group may escape." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, O God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you who told me, 'Return to your country and to your relatives and I'll cause things to go well for you.' |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I'm unworthy of all your gracious love, your faithfulness, and everything that you've done for your servant. When I first crossed over this river, I had only my staff. But now I've become two groups. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Deliver me from my brother Esau's control, because I'm terrified of him, and I'm afraid that he's coming to attack me, the mothers, and their children. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now, you promised me that 'I'm certainly going to cause things to go well with you, and I'm going to make your offspring as numerous as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.'" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jacob spent the night there. Out of everything that he had brought with him, he chose 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 milking camels with their young, 40 cows with ten bulls, and 20 female donkeys with ten male donkeys. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He entrusted them into the care of his servants, one herd at a time. Then he told his servants, "Go in front of me, making sure there's plenty of space between herds." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17To the first group he said, "When you meet my brother Esau, if he asks, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And to whom do these herds belong?' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18then you are to reply, 'We're from your servant Jacob. The herds are a gift. He's sending them to my master, Esau. Look! There he is, coming along behind us.'" |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He issued similar instructions to the second and third group, as well as to all the others who drove the herds that followed: "This is how you are to speak to Esau when you find him. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You are to tell him, 'Look! Your servant Jacob is coming along behind us.'" Jacob was thinking, "I'll pacify him with the presents that are being sent ahead of me. Then, when I meet him, perhaps he'll accept me." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So the presents went ahead of him, while he spent that night in the camp. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Later that night, he woke up, quickly took his two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven children, and forded the river at Jabbok. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He took them across the river, along with all his possessions. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And so Jacob was left alone, and he struggled with a man until daybreak. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When the man realized that he hadn't yet won the struggle, he injured the socket of Jacob's thigh, dislocating it as he wrestled with him, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26and said, "Let me go, because the dawn has come." "I won't let you go," Jacob replied, "unless you bless me." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then the man asked him, "What's your name?" "Jacob," he responded |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Your name won't be Jacob anymore," the man replied, "but Israel, because you exerted yourself against both God and men, and you've emerged victorious." |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Please," Jacob inquired, "Tell me your name." But he asked, "Why are you asking about my name?" And he blessed Jacob there. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Jacob would later call that place Peniel, because "I saw God face to face, but my life was spared." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The sun was rising above Jacob as he crossed over from Peniel, limping due to his wounded thigh. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Therefore, to this day the Israelis do not eat the hip tendon that connects to the thigh socket, because he had injured the socket of the thigh where the tendon connected to Jacob's hip. |
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