¹And Jacob went his way, and the angels of God met him. ²And when he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God's encampment”, and he called that place Mahanaim. ³Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom. ⁴And he instructed them and said, “Here is what you will say to my lord, to Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: «I have dwelt with Laban and I stayed there until now. ⁵And I have acquired oxen and donkeys, sheep and menservants and maidservants. And I have sent to inform my lord, to find grace in your eyes.» ’ ” ⁶Then the messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother, to Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.” ⁷At this Jacob was very afraid, and he was in a strait, and he divided the people who were with him into two, and also the sheep and the oxen and the camels, into two detachments. ⁸And he said, “If Esau comes against one detachment and attacks it, then the remaining detachment will be in a position to escape.” ⁹And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your native country, and I will deal well with you’, ¹⁰I am of little account compared to all the acts of kindness and all the faithfulness which you have shown to your servant, for with my staff I have crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two detachments. ¹¹Please deliver me from the hand of my brother – from the hand of Esau – for I am afraid of him, that he comes and attacks me, and a mother with her sons. ¹²And you have said, ‘I will certainly deal well with you, and I will make your seed like the sand of the sea which cannot be counted for its abundance.’ ” ¹³And he lodged there that night, then he took from what he could afford as a gift to Esau his brother: ¹⁴two hundred goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ¹⁵thirty milk-giving camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten ass-colts. ¹⁶And he handed them over to his servants, each herd apart, and he said to his servants, “Cross over before me and leave a space between one herd and another.” ¹⁷And when he instructed the first, he said, “When Esau my brother meets you and questions you, saying, ‘Who do you belong to and where are you going, and whose are these animals in front of you?’ – ¹⁸you will say, ‘They are your servant's, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, to Esau. And look, he himself is behind us.’ ” ¹⁹Then he instructed the second one too, and the third, and all those following the flocks, and he said, “With these words you will speak to Esau, when you encounter him. ²⁰And you will say, ‘Here is your servant Jacob too, behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will appease him with the gift going ahead of me, and after that I will see his face; maybe he will treat me benevolently.” ²¹So the gift went across ahead of him, while he lodged that night in the encampment. ²²Then he got up that night and took his two wives and his two maidservants and his eleven boys and crossed the ford of Jabbok. ²³And he took them and brought them across the brook, and he took what he had across. ²⁴But Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him, until dawn arose. ²⁵And he saw that he could not prevail over him; and he touched his hip-bone socket, so Jacob's hip-bone became dislocated as he wrestled with him. ²⁶And he said, “Let me go, for dawn has arisen.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” ²⁷And he said to him, “What is your name?” To this he said, “Jacob.” ²⁸He then said, “You shall not be called Jacob any more, but Israel, for you have wrestled with God, and with men, and you have prevailed.” ²⁹Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” To this he said, “Why are you asking my name like this?” And he blessed him there. ³⁰And Jacob called the place Peniel, “For”, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.” ³¹Then the sun rose on him, as he crossed through Penuel, and he limped on his thigh, ³²which is why the sons of Israel do not eat the thigh sinew which is on the thigh joint, up to this day, because he struck Jacob on the thigh joint in the thigh sinew.