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                                     Genesis


                                   Chapter 32


  1. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

  2. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he
     called the name of that place Mahanaim.

  3. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
     unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

  4. And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my
     lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned
     with Laban, and stayed there until now:

  5. And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
     womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
     find grace in thy sight.

  6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy
     brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four
     hundred men with him.

  7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided
     the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and
     the camels, into two bands;

  8. And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it,
     then the other company which is left shall escape.

  9. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my
     father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy
     country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

 10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all
     the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with
     my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two
     bands.

 11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from
     the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and
     smite me, and the mother with the children.

 12. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy
     seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
     multitude.

 13. And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which
     came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

 14. Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred
     ewes, and twenty rams,

 15. Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten
     bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

 16. And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every
     drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over
     before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

 17. 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?

 18. 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.

 19. 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.

 20. 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.

 21. So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
     night in the company.

 22. 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.

 23. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent
     over that he had.

 24. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
     until the breaking of the day.

 25. 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.

 26. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I
     will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

 27. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

 28. 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.

 29. 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.

 30. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have
     seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

 31. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he
     halted upon his thigh.

 32. 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.


                                   Chapter 33


  1. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau
     came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the
     children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
     handmaids.

  2. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and
     Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
     hindermost.

  3. And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
     ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

  4. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
     neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

  5. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
     children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said,
     The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

  6. Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and
     they bowed themselves.

  7. And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
     themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
     bowed themselves.

  8. And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I
     met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my
     lord.

  9. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou
     hast unto thyself.

 10. And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace
     in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for
     therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the
     face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

 11. Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;
     because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I
     have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

 12. And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
     will go before thee.

 13. And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are
     tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and
     if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will
     die.

 14. Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and
     I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth
     before me and the children be able to endure, until I come
     unto my lord unto Seir.

 15. And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk
     that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find
     grace in the sight of my lord.

 16. So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

 17. And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and
     made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place
     is called Succoth.

 18. And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the
     land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his
     tent before the city.

 19. And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his
     tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's
     father, for an hundred pieces of money.

 20. And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.