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- And Jacob went on his way;
and the angels of God met him.
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- And when Jacob saw them he said, This is the camp of God.
And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
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- And Jacob sent messengers before his face to Esau his brother, into the land of Seir, the fields of Edom.
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- And 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;
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- and 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.
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- And 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.
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- Then 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.
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- And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape.
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- And 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,
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- — 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.
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- 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, [and] the mother with the children.
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- And 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.
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- And he lodged there that night;
and took of what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother —
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- two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats;
two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;
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- thirty milch camels with their colts;
forty kine, and ten bulls; twenty she-asses, and ten young asses.
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- And 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.
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- And 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?
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- — 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.
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- And 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.
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- And, 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.
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- And the gift went over before him;
and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
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- And 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;
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- and he took them and led them over the river, and led over what he had.
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- And Jacob remained alone;
and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.
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- And 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.
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- And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth.
And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.
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- And he said to him, What is thy name?
And he said, Jacob.
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- And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel;
for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.
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- And 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.
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- And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel — For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.
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- And as he passed over Peniel, the sun rose upon him;
and he limped upon his hip.
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- Therefore 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.
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