i.
Fearing Esau
32:1-21
Gen. 32
:1
32:1
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Gen. 32
:2
32:2
And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God’s
acamp. So he called the name of that place
1bMahanaim.
Gen. 32
:3
32:3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, into the land of
aSeir, the field of Edom.
Gen. 32
:4
32:4
And he commanded them, saying, Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now;
Gen. 32
:5
32:5
And I have oxen and donkeys
and flocks, and male servants and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord
this, that I may
afind favor in your sight.
Gen. 32
:6
32:6
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you; and
afour hundred men are with him.
Gen. 32
:7
32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels into
atwo camps;
Gen. 32
:8
32:8
And he said, If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp which is left will escape.
Gen. 32
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32:9
Then Jacob said, O
aGod of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me,
bReturn to your country and to your relatives, and I will do you good,
Gen. 32
:10
32:10
I am not worthy of all the lovingkindnesses and all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff
only I crossed over this Jordan, and now I have become
atwo camps.
Gen. 32
:11
32:11
Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack me
and the mother with the children.
Gen. 32
:12
32:12
But You have said, I will surely do you good and make your seed like the
asand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Gen. 32
:13
32:13
And he spent that night there. Then from what he had with him he took a
1apresent for Esau his brother:
Gen. 32
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32:14
Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Gen. 32
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32:15
Thirty nursing camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
Gen. 32
:16
32:16
And he delivered
them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Cross over before me, and put a space between each drove.
Gen. 32
:17
32:17
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong? And where are you going? And whose
animals are these before you?
Gen. 32
:18
32:18
Then you will say, Your servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent to my lord Esau; and now he also is behind us.
Gen. 32
:19
32:19
And he commanded also the second and the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, In this way you shall speak to Esau when you find him,
Gen. 32
:20
32:20
And you shall also say, Your servant Jacob is right behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.
Gen. 32
:21
32:21
So the present crossed over before him, and he himself spent that night in the camp.
2.
Being broken
32:22—34:31
a.
Wrestling with God
32:22-32
Gen. 32
:22
32:22
And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two female servants and his eleven children and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
Gen. 32
:23
32:23
And he took them and sent them over the stream and sent over what he had.
Gen. 32
:24
32:24
And Jacob was left alone, and a
1man awrestled with him until the break of dawn.
Gen. 32
:25
32:25
And when
1the man saw that He did not prevail against him, He
2touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with Him.
Gen. 32
:26
32:26
And the
1man said, Let Me go, for the dawn is breaking. But
2Jacob said, I will
anot let You go unless You bless me.
Gen. 32
:27
32:27
And He said to him,
1What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
Gen. 32
:28
32:28
And He said, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but
1aIsrael; for you have
bstruggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.
Gen. 32
:29
32:29
And Jacob asked
Him and said, Please
atell me Your name. But He said, Why is it that you ask My name? And He blessed him there
1.
Gen. 32
:30
32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place
1Peniel, for,
he said, I have
aseen God face to face, and yet my life has been preserved.
Gen. 32
:31
32:31
And the
1sun rose upon him as he crossed over Penuel, and he limped because of his hip.
Gen. 32
:32
32:32
Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the thigh muscle, which is upon the socket of the hip, to this day, because He touched the socket of Jacob’s hip at the thigh muscle.
