1And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.
2And Jacob went on his way, and the messengers of God met him.
3And Jacob said, when he saw them, "This is the camp of God." And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
4And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
5And he commanded (tzivvah) them, saying, "Thus shall you say to my lord, to Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and have stayed until now.
6And I have ox and donkey, flock, and manservant and maidservant; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.'"
7And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother, to Esau, and moreover he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men (ish) with him."
8And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flock and the herd and the camels, into two camps.
9And he said, "If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp that is left shall escape."
10And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, YHWH, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will do good with you':
11I am too small for all the mercies and for all the truth which you have done with your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
12Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, the mother upon the sons.
13And you yourself said, 'I will surely do good with you, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"
14And he spent the night there that night; and he took from that which came into his hand a present for Esau his brother:
15two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
16thirty nursing camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten foals.
17And he gave into the hand of his servants every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove."
18And he commanded (tzivvah) the first, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, saying, Whose are you? and where are you going? and whose are these before you?
19then you shall say, 'They are your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.'"
20And he commanded (tzivvah) also the second, also the third, also all those going after the droves, saying, "According to this word you shall speak to Esau when you find him;
21and you shall say, 'Moreover, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he said, "I will cover his face with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will lift up my face."
22And the present passed over before him; and he himself spent that night in the camp.
23And he rose up that night, and took his two wives (ishah) and his two maidservants and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
24And he took them and sent them over the stream, and sent over what he had.
25And Jacob was left alone; and a man (ish) wrestled with him ad(עד) the going up of the dawn.
26And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him.
27And he said, "Let me go, for the dawn has gone up." And he said, "I will not let you go, except you bless me."
28And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
29And he said, "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men (ish), and have prevailed."
30And Jacob asked and said, "Tell me, I pray, your name." And he said, "Why is it that you ask for my name?" And he blessed him there.
31And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; "for I have seen God face to face, and my soul (nephesh) was delivered."
32And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he was limping upon his thigh.
33Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, until this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, in the sinew of the thigh-vein.