Genesis Chapter 32
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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
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Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
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And
so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the
droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find
him.
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And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is
behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth
before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will
accept of me.
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So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
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And
he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
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And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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And
when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of
his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he
wrestled with him.
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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
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And
he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a
prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
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And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
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Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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