2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. Compare verse2 commentaries
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the country of Edom. Compare verse2 commentaries
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall you speak to my lord Esau; Your servant Jacob said thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: Compare verse
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 your sight. Compare verse
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and also he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him. Compare verse2 commentaries
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; Compare verse
8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. Compare verse
9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which said to me, Return to your country, and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you: Compare verse1 commentary
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have showed to your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. Compare verse3 commentaries
11 Deliver me, I pray you, 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. Compare verse
12 And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. Compare verse
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; Compare verse2 commentaries
14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, Compare verse
15 Thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. Compare verse
16 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 between drove and drove. Compare verse1 commentary
17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, saying, Whose are you? and where go you? and whose are these before you? Compare verse
18 Then you shall say, They be your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us. Compare verse
19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall you speak to Esau, when you find him. Compare verse
20 And say you moreover, 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; peradventure he will accept of me. Compare verse
21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. Compare verse
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse3 commentaries
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me. Compare verse3 commentaries
28 And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed. Compare verse5 commentaries
29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray you, your name. And he said, Why is it that you do ask after my name? And he blessed him there. Compare verse2 commentaries
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Compare verse2 commentaries
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose on him, and he halted on his thigh. Compare verse
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. Compare verse2 commentaries