| Book of Genesis |
| Chapter 32 |
- 32:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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- 32:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim. F159
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- 32:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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- 32:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He instructed them: "This is what you are to say to my master Esau: 'Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.
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- 32:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.'"
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- 32:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
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- 32:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, F160 and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
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- 32:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, F161 the group F162 that is left may escape."
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- 32:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'
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- 32:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two groups.
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- 32:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
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- 32:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.'"
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- 32:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
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- 32:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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- 32:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
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- 32:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds."
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- 32:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He instructed the one in the lead: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?'
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- 32:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - then you are to say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.'"
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- 32:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: "You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
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- 32:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - And be sure to say, 'Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.'" For he thought, "I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me."
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- 32:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.
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- 32:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
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- 32:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.
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- 32:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
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- 32:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
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- 32:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
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- 32:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.
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- 32:28 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, F163 because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
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- 32:29 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
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- 32:30 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - So Jacob called the place Peniel, F164 saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
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- 32:31 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, F165 and he was limping because of his hip.
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- 32:32 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation ] - Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.
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FOOTNOTES: F159 Mahanaim means two camps. F160 Or camps; also in verse 10 F161 Or camp F162 Or camp F163 Israel means he struggles with God. F164 Peniel means face of God. F165 Hebrew Penuel, a variant of Peniel
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