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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 32 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</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 class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <p class="chapter-2"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>and when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called that place Mahanaim.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-931a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jacob Sends Presents to Appease Esau</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have lived with Laban as an alien, and stayed until now; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>and I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.’”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>thinking, “If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company that is left will escape.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>So he spent that night there, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between drove and drove.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>He instructed the foremost, “When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>So the present passed on ahead of him; and he himself spent that night in the camp.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jacob Wrestles at Peniel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Then the man<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-957b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-957c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> for you have striven with God and with humans,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-957d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> and have prevailed.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>So Jacob called the place Peniel,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-959e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 32:2">Genesis 32:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Here taken to mean <i>Two camps</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 32:28">Genesis 32:28</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i> </span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 32:28">Genesis 32:28</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>The one who strives with God</i> or <i>God strives</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 32:28">Genesis 32:28</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>with divine and human beings</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 32:30">Genesis 32:30</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>The face of God</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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