And Jacob went on his way; and the angels of God met him.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] the camp of God. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim .
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother into the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord, to Esau: Thy servant Jacob speaketh thus. With Laban I have sojourned and tarried until now;
and I have oxen, and asses, sheep, and bondmen and bondwomen; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he also cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that [was] with him, and the sheep and the herds and the camels, into two companies .
And he said, If Esau come to the one company and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who saidst to me, Return to thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee;
I am less than all the mercies and all the truth that thou hast shown unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two companies.
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from Esau’s hand; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children.
And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude.
And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to his hands a gift for Esau his brother;
two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;
thirty milch camels with their colts: forty kine, and ten bulls; twenty she-asses, and ten young asses.
And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself: and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets thee, and asks thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
then shalt thou say, Thy servant Jacob’s, it is a gift sent to my lord Esau; and, behold, he also is behind us.
And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, According to this word shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him.
And ye shall say moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will propitiate him with the gift that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face: perhaps he will accept me.
And the gift went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp .
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jabbok;
and he took them and led them over the stream, and sent over what he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the rising of the dawn.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.
And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Not Jacob shall be called henceforth thy name, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked and said, Tell, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore askest thou after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he halted upon his thigh.
Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew that shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip .