Genesis 32:13–32

¹³He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:^{i 14}two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams, ¹⁵thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys. ¹⁶He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”

¹⁷And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’ ¹⁸then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’ ”

¹⁹He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him. ²⁰You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

²¹So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night. ²²During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.^{j 23}He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD

²⁴Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.^{k 25}When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip. ²⁶Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

²⁷“What is your name?” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he replied.

²⁸“Your name will no longer be Jacob,”^l he said. “It will be Israel^A because you have struggled with God^m and with men and have prevailed.”

²⁹Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”

But he answered, “Why do you ask my name?”ⁿ And he blessed him there.

³⁰Jacob then named the place Peniel,^B “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”^{o 31}The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel^Cp—limping because of his hip. ³²That is why, still today, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.^A