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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 32</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/32.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//genesis/32-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/genesis/">Genesis</a> > Genesis 32</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/31.htm" title="Genesis 31">◄</a> Genesis 32 <a href="../genesis/33.htm" title="Genesis 33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/genesis/32.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/genesis/32.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/genesis/32.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/genesis/32.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/genesis/32.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/genesis/32.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/genesis/32.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’ <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau: <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.” <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’ <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” For he thought, “I will appease Esau<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span>” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp. <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">Jacob Wrestles with God<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> wrestled with him until daybreak. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” <p class="reg"> But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” <A name="28"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“What is your name?” the man asked. <p class="reg">“Jacob,” he replied. <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> but Israel,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.” <A name="30"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” <p class="reg"> But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there. <A name="31"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So Jacob named the place Peniel,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> and he was limping because of his hip. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Mahanaim</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>two camps</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>I will appease his face</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Literally <i>perhaps he will lift up my face</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>Man</i><span class="thin"> </span>; here and in verses 25–28; corresponding pronouns may also be capitalized<br><span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <i>Jacob</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>he grasps the heel</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>he deceives</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <i>Israel</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>he struggles with God</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <i>Peniel</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>the face of God</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <i>Penuel</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Peniel</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see verse 30.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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