Genesis 32 :: King James Version (KJV)

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 God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Gen 32:3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Gen 32:4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

Gen 32:5

Gen 32:5And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

Gen 32:6

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

Gen 32:7

Gen 32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

Gen 32:8

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

Gen 32:9

Gen 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

Gen 32:10

Gen 32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

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 will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

Gen 32:12

Gen 32:12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, 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 same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present 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 foals.

Gen 32:16

Gen 32:16And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

Gen 32:17

Gen 32:17And 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?

Gen 32:18

Gen 32:18Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

Gen 32:19

Gen 32:19And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

Gen 32:20

Gen 32:20And say ye 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 of me.

Gen 32:21

Gen 32:21So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

Gen 32:22

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

Gen 32:23

Gen 32:23And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

Jacob Wrestles

Gen 32:24

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

Gen 32:25

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

Gen 32:26

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

Gen 32:27

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

Gen 32:28

Gen 32:28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Gen 32:29

Gen 32:29And 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.

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 is preserved.

Gen 32:31

Gen 32:31And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Gen 32:32

Gen 32:32Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

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Genesis 32 :: King James Version (KJV)

Jacob's Fear of Esau

Jacob Wrestles

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