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Genesis 32 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:1 - And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - and I have oxen, and asses, and flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:10 - I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 - And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14 - two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16 - And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19 - And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob 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 me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:23 - And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:24 - And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:26 - And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:27 - And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - And Jacob 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 - And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:31 - And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip 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.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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