Genesis 32 :: New English Translation (NET)

Jacob's Fear of Esau

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

Gen 32:2When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim.

Gen 32:3Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

Gen 32:4He commanded them, "This is what you must say to my lord Esau: 'This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

Gen 32:5

Gen 32:5I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.'"

Gen 32:6

Gen 32:6The messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him."

Gen 32:7

Gen 32:7Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

Gen 32:8

Gen 32:8"If Esau attacks one camp," he thought, "then the other camp will be able to escape."

Gen 32:9

Gen 32:9Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me, 'Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.'

Gen 32:10

Gen 32:10I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

Gen 32:11

Gen 32:11Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

Gen 32:12

Gen 32:12But you said, 'I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.'"

Gen 32:13

Gen 32:13Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

Gen 32:14

Gen 32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Gen 32:15

Gen 32:15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Gen 32:16

Gen 32:16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, "Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next."

Gen 32:17

Gen 32:17He instructed the servant leading the first herd, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?'

Gen 32:18

Gen 32:18then you must say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.'"

Gen 32:19

Gen 32:19He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, "You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

Gen 32:20

Gen 32:20You must also say, 'In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.'" Jacob thought, "I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me."

Gen 32:21

Gen 32:21So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

Gen 32:22

Gen 32:22During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Gen 32:23

Gen 32:23He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

Jacob Wrestles

Gen 32:24

Gen 32:24So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Gen 32:25

Gen 32:25When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob's hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

Gen 32:26

Gen 32:26Then the man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." "I will not let you go," Jacob replied, "unless you bless me."

Gen 32:27

Gen 32:27The man asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "Jacob."

Gen 32:28

Gen 32:28"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

Gen 32:29

Gen 32:29Then Jacob asked, "Please tell me your name." "Why do you ask my name?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

Gen 32:30

Gen 32:30So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, "Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived."

Gen 32:31

Gen 32:31The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

Gen 32:32

Gen 32:32That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob's hip near the attached sinew.

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Genesis 32 :: New English Translation (NET)

Jacob's Fear of Esau

Jacob Wrestles

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