# Genesis 32 (New King James Version)
Esau Comes to Meet Jacob

##### Chapter 32
###### 1 So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.  
###### 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This _is_ God's camp." And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

###### 3 Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.  
###### 4 And he commanded them, saying, "Speak thus to my lord Esau, 'Thus your servant Jacob says: "I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now.  
###### 5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight." ' "

###### 6 Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men _are_ with him."  
###### 7 So 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.  
###### 8 And he said, "If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape."

###### 9 Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you':  
###### 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.  
###### 11 Deliver me, I pray, 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.  
###### 12 For You said, 'I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' "

###### 13 So he lodged there that same night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother:  
###### 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,  
###### 15 thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.  
###### 16 Then he delivered _them_ to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves."  
###### 17 And he commanded the first one, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose _are_ these in front of you?'  
###### 18 then you shall say, 'They _are_ your servant Jacob's. It _is_ a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also _is_ behind us.' "  
###### 19 So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, "In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;  
###### 20 and also say, 'Behold, your servant Jacob _is_ 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."  
###### 21 So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.Wrestling with God

###### 22 And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.  
###### 23 He took them, sent them over the brook, and sent over what he had.  
###### 24 Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day.  
###### 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him.  
###### 26 And He said, "Let Me go, for the day breaks."
But he said, "I will not let You go unless You bless me!"

###### 27 So He said to him, "What _is_ your name?"
He said, "Jacob."

###### 28 And He said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed."

###### 29 Then Jacob asked, saying, "Tell _me_ Your name, I pray."
And He said, "Why _is_ it _that_ you ask about My name?" And He blessed him there.

###### 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."  
###### 31 Just as he crossed over Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip.  
###### 32 Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which _is_ on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob's hip in the muscle that shrank.