| 1 | And Jacob hath gone on his way, and messengers of God come upon him; |
| 2 | and Jacob saith, when he hath seen them, `This [is] the camp of God;` and he calleth the name of that place `Two Camps.` |
| 3 | And Jacob sendeth messengers before him unto Esau his brother, towards the land of Seir, the field of Edom, |
| 4 | and commandeth them, saying, `Thus do ye say to my lord, to Esau: Thus said thy servant Jacob, With Laban I have sojourned, and I tarry until now; |
| 5 | and I have ox, and ass, flock, and man-servant, and maid-servant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.` |
| 6 | And the messengers turn back unto Jacob, saying, `We came in unto thy brother, unto Esau, and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him;` |
| 7 | and Jacob feareth exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divideth the people who [are] with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps, |
| 8 | and saith, `If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it -- then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.` |
| 9 | And Jacob saith, `God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee: |
| 10 | I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. |
| 11 | `Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me -- mother beside sons; |
| 12 | and Thou -- Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.` |
| 13 | And he lodgeth there during that night, and taketh from that which is coming into his hand, a present for Esau his brother: |
| 14 | she-goats two hundred, and he-goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty, |
| 15 | suckling camels and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bullocks ten, she-asses twenty, and foals ten; |
| 16 | and he giveth into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and saith unto his servants, `Pass over before me, and a space ye do put between drove and drove.` |
| 17 | And he commandeth the first, saying, `When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and hath asked thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee? |
| 18 | then thou hast said, Thy servant Jacob`s: it [is] a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and lo, he also [is] behind us.` |
| 19 | And he commandeth also the second, also the third, also all who are going after the droves, saying, `According to this manner do ye speak unto Esau in your finding him, |
| 20 | and ye have said also, Lo, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us;` for he said, `I pacify his face with the present which is going before me, and afterwards I see his face; it may be he lifteth up my face;` |
| 21 | and the present passeth over before his face, and he hath lodged during that night in the camp. |
| 22 | And he riseth in that night, and taketh his two wives, and his two maid-servants, and his eleven children, and passeth over the passage of Jabbok; |
| 23 | and he taketh them, and causeth them to pass over the brook, and he causeth that which he hath to pass over. |
| 24 | And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn; |
| 25 | and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob`s thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him; |
| 26 | and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:` and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.` |
| 27 | And he saith unto him, `What [is] thy name?` and he saith, `Jacob.` |
| 28 | And he saith, `Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.` |
| 29 | And Jacob asketh, and saith, `Declare, I pray thee, thy name;` and he saith, `Why [is] this, thou askest for My name?` and He blesseth him there. |
| 30 | And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for `I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;` |
| 31 | and the sun riseth on him when he hath passed over Penuel, and he is halting on his thigh; |
| 32 | therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which [is] on the hollow of the thigh, unto this day, because He came against the hollow of Jacob`s thigh, against the sinew which shrank. |
