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And Jacob went on his way , and the angels of God met him.
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And when Jacob saw them, he said , This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim .
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother , to the land of Seir , the country of Edom .
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And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau : Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban , and stayed there till now:
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And I have oxen, and asses , flocks , and men-servants , and women-servants : and I have sent to tell my lord , that I may find grace in thy sight .
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And the messengers returned to Jacob , saying, We came to thy brother Esau , and also he is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid , and distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks , and herds , and camels , into two bands;
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And said , If Esau shall come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, will escape.
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And Jacob said , O God of my father Abraham , and God of my father Isaac , the LORD who saidst to me, Return to thy country , and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee;
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies , and of all the truth , which thou hast shown to thy servant : for with my staff I passed over this Jordan , and now I am become two bands.
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Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother , from the hand of Esau : for I fear him, lest he shall come and smite me, and the mother with the children .
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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.
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And he lodged there that same night ; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau , his brother ;
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Two hundred she-goats , and twenty he-goats , two hundred ewes and twenty rams ,
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants , every drove by themselves; and said to his servants , Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
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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 are thy servant Jacob 's: it is a present sent to my lord Esau : and behold also he is behind us .
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And so he commanded the second, and the third , and all that followed the droves, saying, In this manner shall ye speak to 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 the present went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the company.
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And he arose that night , and took his two wives , and his two women -servants, 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 which 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 to 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 , why 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 shrunk, which is upon the hollow of the thigh , to this day ; because he touched the hollow of Jacob 's thigh in the sinew that shrunk.