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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 NET Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../topmenuchap/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="../">NET Bible</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">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/genesis/32.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Jacob Wrestles at Peniel</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought, “then the other camp will be able to escape.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He instructed the servant leading the first herd, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>then you must say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought, “I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. <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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/32-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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