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[1]Now Jacob went forth on his journey and the angels of God met him. [No book]
[2]And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host, and called the name of the same place Mahanaim. [No book]
[3]Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir into the country of Edom: [No book]
[4]To whom he gave commandment, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have been a stranger with Laban, and tarried unto this time. [No book]
[5]I have beeves also and asses, sheep, and menservants, and women servants, and have sent to show my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. [No book]
[6]So the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, We came unto thy brother Esau, and he also cometh against thee and four hundred men with him. [No book]
[7]Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and was sore troubled, and divided the people that was with him, and the sheep, and the beeves, and the camels into two companies. [No book]
[8]For he said, If Esau come to the one company and smite it, the other company shall escape. [No book]
[9]Moreover Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: Lord, which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good, [No book]
[10]I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant: for with my staff came I over this Jordan, and now have I gotten two bands. [No book]
[11]I pray thee, Deliver me 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 upon the children. [No book]
[12]For thou saidst; I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. [No book]
[13]And he tarried there the same night, and took of that which came to had, a present for Esau his brother: [No book]
[14]Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams: [No book]
[15]Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bullocks, twenty she asses and ten foals. [No book]
[16]So he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves, and said unto his servants, Pass before me, and put a space between drove and drove. [No book]
[17]And he commanded the foremost, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose servant art thou? And whither goest thou? And whose are these before thee? [No book]
[18]Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's: it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and behold, he himself also is behind us. [No book]
[19]So likewise commanded he the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, After this manner, ye shall speak unto Esau, when ye find him. [No book]
[20]And ye shall say moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob cometh after us (for he thought, I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face: it may be that he will accept me.) [No book]
[21]So went the present before him: but he tarried that night with the company. [No book]
[22]And he rose up the same night, and took his two wives, and his two maids, and his eleven children, and went over the ford Jabbok. [No book]
[23]And he took them, and sent them over the river, and sent over that he had. [No book]
[24]When Jacob was left himself alone, there wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the day. [No book]
[25]And he saw that he could not prevail against him: therefore he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was loosed, as he wrestled with him. [No book]
[26]And he said, Let me go, for the morning appeareth. Who answered, I will not let thee go except thou bless me. [No book]
[27]Then said he unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. [No book]
[28]Then said he, Thy name shall be called Jacob no more, but Israel: because thou hast had power with God, thou shalt also prevail with men. [No book]
[29]Then Jacob demanded, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore now dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him there [No book]
[30]And Jacob called the name of the place, Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. [No book]
[31]And the sun rose up to him as he passed Peniel, and he halted upon his thigh. [No book]
[32]Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank in the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the sinew that shrank in the hollow of Jacob's thigh. [No book]
Source: archive.org
 Translation: M. R. James (1924)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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