¹ 以色列带着一切所有的，起身来到别是巴，就献祭给他父亲以撒的神。

² 夜间，神在异象中对以色列说：雅各！雅各！他说：我在这里。

³ 神说：我是神，就是你父亲的神。你下埃及去不要害怕，因为我必使你在那里成为大族。

⁴ 我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来；约瑟必给你送终(原文作将手按在你的眼睛上)。

⁵ 雅各就从别是巴起行。以色列的儿子们使他们的父亲雅各和他们的妻子、儿女都坐在法老为雅各送来的车上。

⁶ 他们又带着迦南地所得的牲畜、货财来到埃及。雅各和他的一切子孙都一同来了，

⁷ 雅各把他的儿子、孙子、女儿、孙女，并他的子子孙孙，一同带到埃及。

⁸ 来到埃及的以色列人名字记在下面。雅各和他的儿孙：雅各的长子是流便。

⁹ 流便的儿子是哈诺、法路、希斯伦、迦米。

¹⁰ 西缅的儿子是耶母利、雅悯、阿辖、雅斤、琐辖，还有迦南女子所生的扫罗。

¹¹ 利未的儿子是革顺、哥辖、米拉利。

¹² 犹大的儿子是珥、俄南、示拉、法勒斯、谢拉；惟有珥与俄南死在迦南地。法勒斯的儿子是希斯伦、哈母勒。

¹³ 以萨迦的儿子是陀拉、普瓦、约伯、伸仑。

¹⁴ 西布伦的儿子是西烈、以伦、雅利。

¹⁵ 这是利亚在巴旦亚兰给雅各所生的儿子，还在女儿底拿。儿孙共三十三人。

¹⁶ 迦得的儿子是洗非芸、哈基、书尼、以斯本、以利、亚罗底、亚列利。

¹⁷ 亚设的儿子是音拿、亦施瓦、亦施韦、比利亚，还有他们的妹子西拉。比利亚的儿子是希别、玛结。

¹⁸ 这是拉班给他女儿利亚的婢女悉帕从雅各所生的儿孙，共有十六人。

¹⁹ 雅各之妻拉结的儿子是约瑟和便雅悯。

²⁰ 约瑟在埃及地生了玛拿西和以法莲，就是安城的祭司波提非拉的女儿亚西纳给约瑟生的。

²¹ 便雅悯的儿子是比拉、比结、亚实别、基拉、乃幔、以希、罗实、母平、户平、亚勒。

²² 这是拉结给雅各所生的儿孙，共有十四人。

²³ 但的儿子是户伸。

²⁴ 拿弗他利的儿子是雅薛、沽尼、耶色、示冷。

²⁵ 这是拉班给他女儿拉结的婢女辟拉从雅各所生的儿孙，共有七人。

²⁶ 那与雅各同到埃及的，除了他儿妇之外，凡从他所生的，共有六十六人。

²⁷ 还有约瑟在埃及所生的两个儿子。雅各家来到埃及的共有七十人。

²⁸ 雅各打发犹大先去见约瑟，请派人引路往歌珊去；於是他们来到歌珊地。

²⁹ 约瑟套车往歌珊去，迎接他父亲以色列，及至见了面，就伏在父亲的颈项，哭了许久。

³⁰ 以色列对约瑟说：我既得见你的面，知道你还在，就是死我也甘心。

³¹ 约瑟对他的弟兄和他父的全家说：我要上去告诉法老，对他说：我的弟兄和我父的全家从前在迦南地，现今都到我这里来了。

³² 他们本是牧羊的人，以养牲畜为业；他们把羊群牛群和一切所有的都带来了。

³³ 等法老召你们的时候，问你们说：你们以何事为业？

³⁴ 你们要说：你的仆人，从幼年直到如今，都以养牲畜为业，连我们的祖宗也都以此为业。这样，你们可以住在歌珊地，因为凡牧羊的都被埃及人所厌恶。

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

² When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

³ Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

⁴ He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

⁵ I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"

⁶ The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

⁸ and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

⁹ Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'

¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

¹¹ Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

¹² You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"

¹³ He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

¹⁴ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

¹⁵ thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

¹⁶ He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

¹⁷ He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

¹⁸ Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"

¹⁹ He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

²⁰ You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

²¹ So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

²² He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

²³ He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

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

²⁵ When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

²⁶ The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."

²⁷ He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

²⁸ He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

²⁹ Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

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

³¹ The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

³² Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.