now I am become two bands.
11 Deliver 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.
12 And thou
saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered
for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present
for Esau his brother;
14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty
rams,
15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
16
And 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.
17 And 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?
18 Then 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.
19 And 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.
20 And 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.
21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
22
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons,
and passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the
day.
25 And 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.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy
name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And 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.
29 And 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.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face,
and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon
his thigh.
32 Therefore 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.
Gen.33
1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men.
And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
2 And he put
the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost.
3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he
came near to his brother.
4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and
kissed him: and they wept.
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said,
Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
6
Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
7 And Leah
also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and
they bowed themselves.
8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said,
These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that
thou hast unto thyself.
10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then
receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God,
and thou wast pleased with me.
11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God
hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
12 And
he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
13 And he said unto him, My
lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men
should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his
servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able
to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of
the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
16
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an
house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18 And Jacob