- 1. And Iacob went on his way, and the Angels of God met him.
- 2. And when Iacob saw them, he said, This is Gods hoste: and hee called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- 3. And Iacob sent messengers before him, to Esau his brother, vnto the land of Seir, the countrey of Edom.
- 4. And he commaunded them, saying, Thus shall ye speake vnto my lord Esau, Thy seruant Iacob saith thus, I haue soiourned with Laban, and stayed there vntill now.
- 5. And I haue oxen, and asses, flockes, and men seruants and women seruants: and I haue sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
- 6. And the messengers returned to Iacob, saying, Wee came to thy brother Esau, and also he commeth to meet thee, and foure hundred men with him.
- 7. Then Iacob was greatly afraid, and distressed, and he diuided the people that was with him, and the flockes, and herdes, and the camels into two bands,
- 8. And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, shall escape.
- 9. And Iacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst vnto me, Returne vnto thy countrey, and to thy kinred, and I will deale well with thee:
- 10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the trueth, which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant: for with my staffe I passed ouer this Iordan, and now I am become two bands.
- 11. Deliuer me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I feare him, lest he will come, and smite me, and the mother with the children.
- 12. And thou saidst, I will surely doe thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbred for multitude.
- 13. And he lodged there that same night, and tooke of that which came to his hand, a present for Esau his brother:
- 14. Two hundred shee goats, and twentie hee goats, two hundred ewes, and twentie rammes,
- 15. Thirtie milch camels with their colts, fortie kine, and ten bulles, twenty shee ashes, and ten foales.
- 16. And hee deliuered them into the hand of his seruants, euery droue by themselues, and said vnto his seruants, Passe ouer before me, and put a space betwixt droue and droue.
- 17. And he commanded the formost, 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 seruant Iacobs: it is a present sent vnto my lord Esau: and behold also, he is behind vs.
- 19. And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droues, saying, On this maner shal you speake vnto Esau, when you find him.
- 20. And say ye moreouer, Beholde, thy seruant Iacob is behind vs: for he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peraduenture he will accept of me.
- 21. So went the present ouer before him: and himselfe lodged that night in the company.
- 22. And hee rose vp that night, and tooke his two wiues, and his two women seruants, and his eleuen sonnes, and passed ouer the foord Iabbok.
- 23. And he tooke them, and sent them ouer the brooke, and sent ouer that hee had.
- 24. And Iacob was left alone: and there wrestled a man with him, vntill the breaking of the day.
- 25. And when he saw, that he preuailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Iacobs thigh was out of ioynt, as hee wrestled with him.
- 26. And he said, Let me goe, for the day breaketh: and he said, I will not let thee goe, except thou blesse me.
- 27. And he said vnto him, what is thy name? and he said, Iacob.
- 28. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Iacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast preuailed.
- 29. And Iacob asked him, and saide, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name: and he said, wherefore is it, that thou doest aske after my name? and he blessed him there.
- 30. And Iacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I haue seene God face to face, and my life is preserued.
- 31. And as he passed ouer Penuel, the sunne rose vpon him, and he halted vpon his thigh.
- 32. Therefore the children of Israel eate not of the sinewe which shranke, which is vpon the hollow of the thigh, vnto this day: because hee touched the hollow of Iacobs thigh, in the sinewe that shranke.
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