1And Laban got up early in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them and went. And Laban went back to his place, 2and Jacob went his way. And angels of God came upon him. 3And Jacob said when he saw them, “This is a camp of God,” and he called that place’s name Mahanaim.
4And Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom, 5and commanded them saying, “You shall say this: ‘To my lord, to Esau, your servant Jacob said this, “I’ve stayed with Laban and delayed until now, 6and ox and ass and sheep and male and female servant have become mine. And I’m sending to tell my lord so as to find favor in your eyes.“’”
7And the messengers came back to Jacob saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and also he’s coming to you—and four hundred men with him.” 8And Jacob was very afraid, and he had anguish. And he divided the people who were with him and the sheep and the oxen and the camels into two camps. 9And he said, “If Esau will come to one camp and strike it, then the camp that is left will survive.”
10And Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, YHWH, who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your birthplace, and I’ll deal well with you,’ “I’m not worthy of all the kindnesses and all the faithfulness that you’ve done with your servant, because I crossed this Jordan with just my rod, and now I’ve become two camps. 12Save me from my brother’s hand, from Esau’s hand, because I fear him, in case he’ll come and strike me, mother with children. 13And you’ve said, ‘I’ll do well with you, and I’ll make your seed like the sand of the sea, that it won’t be countable because of its great number.’”
14And he spent that night there.
And he took an offering for Esau, his brother, from what had come into his hand: 15two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, l6thirty nursing camels and their offspring, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses. 17And he placed them in his servants’ hands, each herd by itself, and he said to his servants, “Pass on in front of me, and keep a distance between each herd and the next.” l8And he commanded the first, saying, “When my brother, Esau, meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these in front of you belong?’ 19then you’ll say, ‘To your servant, to Jacob. It’s an offering sent to my lord, to Esau. And here he is behind us as well.’” 20And he also commanded the second, also the third, also all of those who were going behind the herds, saying, “You’ll speak this way to Esau when you find him, 21and you’ll say, ‘Here is your servant, Jacob, behind us as well.’” Because he said, “Let me appease his face with the offering that’s going in front of me, and after that I’ll see his face; maybe he’ll raise my face.” 22And the offering passed ahead of him. And he had spent that night in the camp.
23And he got up in that night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven boys and crossed the Jabbok ford. 24And he took them and had them cross the wadi, and he had everything that was his cross. 25And Jacob was left by himself.
And a man wrestled with him until the dawn’s rising. 26And he saw that he was not able against him, and he touched the inside of his thigh, and the inside of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated during his wrestling with him.
27And he said, “Let me go, because the dawn has risen.”
And he said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
28And he said to him, “What is your name?”
And he said, “Jacob.”
29And he said, “Your name won’t be said ‘Jacob’ anymore but ‘Israel,’ because you’ve struggled with God and with people and were able.”
30And Jacob asked, and he said, “Tell your name.”
And he said, “Why is this that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.
31And Jacob called the place’s name Peni-El “because I’ve seen God face-to-face, and my life has been delivered.”
32And the sun rose on him as he passed Penuel, and he was faltering on his thigh. 33On account of this the children of Israel to this day will not eat the tendon of the vein that is on the inside of the thigh, because he touched the inside of Jacob’s thigh, the tendon of the vein.