Genesis 32:13–32

¹³So he spent the night there. Then he ¹selected from what ²he had with him a ^apresent for his brother Esau:

¹⁴two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

¹⁵thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

¹⁶He delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on before me, and put a space between droves.”

¹⁷He commanded the ¹one in front, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?’

¹⁸then you shall say, ‘These belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.’ ”

¹⁹Then he commanded also the second and the third, and all those who followed the droves, saying, “After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;

²⁰and you shall say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

²¹So the present passed on before him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.

²²Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the ^aJabbok.

²³He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.

Jacob Wrestles

²⁴Then Jacob was left alone, and a man ^awrestled with him until daybreak.

²⁵When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

²⁶Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “^aI will not let you go unless you bless me.”

²⁷So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

^28aHe said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but ¹Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

²⁹Then ^aJacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

³⁰So Jacob named the place ¹Peniel, for he said, “^aI have seen God face to face, yet my ²life has been preserved.”

³¹Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over ^aPenuel, and he was limping on his thigh.

³²Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.