Genesis 32:13–32

^13–15After spending the night there, Jacob chose from his livestock as a present for his brother Esau: 200 female goats and twenty males, 200 female sheep and twenty males, 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten males. ¹⁶He divided them into herds and put one of his servants in charge of each herd. He said to them, “Go ahead of me, and leave a space between each herd and the one behind it.” ¹⁷He ordered the first servant, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who is your master? Where are you going? Who owns these animals in front of you?’ ¹⁸you must answer, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. He sends them as a present to his master Esau. Jacob himself is just behind us.’ ” ¹⁹He gave the same order to the second, the third, and to all the others who were in charge of the herds: “This is what you must say to Esau when you meet him. ²⁰You must say, ‘Yes, your servant Jacob is just behind us.’ ” Jacob was thinking, “I will win him over with the gifts, and when I meet him, perhaps he will forgive me.” ²¹He sent the gifts on ahead of him and spent that night in camp.

Jacob Wrestles at Peniel

²²That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the River Jabbok. ²³After he had sent them across, he also sent across all that he owned, ^24*but he stayed behind, alone.

Then a man came and wrestled with him until just before daybreak. ^25*When the man saw that he was not winning the struggle, he struck Jacob on the hip, and it was thrown out of joint. ^26*The man said, “Let me go; daylight is coming.”

“I won’t, unless you bless me,” Jacob answered.

²⁷“What is your name?” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he answered.

^28*The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have struggled with God and with men, and you have won; so your name will be Israel.”^j

^29*Jacob said, “Now tell me your name.”

But he answered, “Why do you want to know my name?” Then he blessed Jacob.

³⁰Jacob said, “I have seen God face to face, and I am still alive”; so he named the place Peniel.^{k 31}The sun rose as Jacob was leaving Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. ³²Even today the descendants of Israel do not eat the muscle which is on the hip joint, because it was on this muscle that Jacob was struck.