Genesis 32 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Jacob's Fear of Esau

Gen 32:1And Jacob went on his way; and the angels of God met him.

Gen 32:2And when Jacob saw them he said, This is the camp of God. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Gen 32:3And Jacob sent messengers before his face to Esau his brother, into the land of Seir, the fields of Edom.

Gen 32:4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord, to Esau: Thy servant Jacob speaks thus -- With Laban have I sojourned and tarried until now;

Gen 32:5

Gen 32:5and I have oxen, and asses, sheep, and bondmen, and bondwomen; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thine eyes.

Gen 32:6

Gen 32:6And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Gen 32:7

Gen 32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and was distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the sheep and the cattle and the camels, into two troops.

Gen 32:8

Gen 32:8And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape.

Gen 32:9

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

Gen 32:10

Gen 32:10-- I am too small for all the loving-kindness and all the faithfulness that thou hast shewn unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two troops.

Gen 32:11

Gen 32:11Deliver 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, and the mother with the children.

Gen 32:12

Gen 32:12And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Gen 32:13

Gen 32:13And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother --

Gen 32:14

Gen 32:14two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;

Gen 32:15

Gen 32:15thirty milch camels with their colts; forty kine, and ten bulls; twenty she-asses, and ten young asses.

Gen 32:16

Gen 32:16And 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.

Gen 32:17

Gen 32:17And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets thee, and asks thee, saying, Whose art thou, and where goest thou, and whose are these before thee?

Gen 32:18

Gen 32:18-- then thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob's: it is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.

Gen 32:19

Gen 32:19And 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.

Gen 32:20

Gen 32:20And, moreover, ye shall say, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will propitiate him with the gift that goes before me, and afterwards I will see his face: perhaps he will accept me.

Gen 32:21

Gen 32:21And the gift went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

Gen 32:22

Gen 32:22And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok;

Gen 32:23

Gen 32:23and he took them and led them over the river, and led over what he had.

Jacob Wrestles

Gen 32:24

Gen 32:24And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.

Gen 32:25

Gen 32:25And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the joint of his thigh; and the joint of Jacob's thigh was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

Gen 32:26

Gen 32:26And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

Gen 32:27

Gen 32:27And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

Gen 32:28

Gen 32:28And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

Gen 32:29

Gen 32:29And Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, How is it that thou askest after my name? And he blessed him there.

Gen 32:30

Gen 32:30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel -- For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.

Gen 32:31

Gen 32:31And as he passed over Peniel, the sun rose upon him; and he limped upon his hip.

Gen 32:32

Gen 32:32Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew that is over the joint of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the joint of Jacob's thigh -- the sinew.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 32 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Jacob's Fear of Esau

Jacob Wrestles

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