Genesis 32

1Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.Cross-references: 2Ki 6:16 · Ps 34:7 · Ps 91:11 · 1Cor 3:22 · Eph 3:10 · Heb 1:4

2When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.Cross-references: Josh 5:14 · Josh 21:38 · 2Sam 2:8 · 2Sam 2:12 · 2Sam 17:24 · 2Sam 17:26 · +9 more

3Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.Cross-references: Gen 14:6 · Gen 25:30 · Gen 27:41 · Gen 33:14 · Gen 33:16 · Gen 36:6 · +6 more

4He 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.Cross-references: Gen 4:7 · Gen 23:6 · Gen 27:29 · Gen 27:37 · Gen 32:5 · Gen 32:18 · +9 more

5I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”Cross-references: Gen 30:43 · Gen 31:16 · Gen 33:8 · Gen 33:11 · Gen 33:15 · Gen 47:25 · +4 more

6The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”Cross-references: Gen 27:40 · Gen 32:8 · Gen 32:11 · Gen 33:1 · Amos 5:19

7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies.Cross-references: Gen 32:11 · Gen 35:3 · Ex 14:10 · Ps 18:4 · Ps 31:13 · Ps 55:4 · +13 more

8He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”Cross-references: Gen 33:1 · Matt 10:16

9Jacob 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,’Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 31:3 · Gen 31:13 · Gen 31:29 · Gen 31:42 · +10 more

10I 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 crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.Cross-references: Gen 18:27 · Gen 24:27 · Gen 28:10 · Gen 28:15 · Gen 30:43 · Gen 32:5 · +23 more

11Please 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.Cross-references: Gen 27:41 · Deut 22:6 · 1Sam 12:10 · 1Sam 24:15 · Ps 16:1 · Ps 25:20 · +9 more

12You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 32:6 · Gen 46:3 · Ex 32:13 · Num 23:19 · +5 more

13He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Gen 32:20 · Gen 33:10 · Gen 42:6 · Gen 43:11 · Gen 43:26 · +6 more

14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,Cross-references: Gen 30:43 · Gen 31:9 · Gen 31:16 · Deut 8:18 · 1Sam 25:2 · Job 1:3 · +1 more

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

16He 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.”Cross-references: Gen 32:20 · Gen 33:8 · Ps 112:5 · Prov 2:11 · Isa 28:26 · Matt 10:16

17He 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?’Cross-references: Gen 33:3

18Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”Cross-references: Gen 32:4

19He 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.

20You 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.”Cross-references: Gen 43:11 · 1Sam 6:5 · 1Sam 25:17 · 1Ki 20:31 · Job 42:8 · Prov 6:35 · +5 more

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

22He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.Cross-references: Gen 29:21 · Gen 35:18 · Gen 35:22 · Deut 2:37 · Deut 3:16 · Josh 12:2 · +1 more

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

24Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.Cross-references: Gen 30:8 · Gen 32:28 · Gen 32:30 · Gen 48:16 · Ex 14:27 · Song 2:17 · +12 more

25When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.Cross-references: Gen 19:22 · Gen 32:32 · Num 14:13 · Ps 30:6 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 45:11 · +6 more

26The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”Cross-references: Ex 32:10 · Deut 9:14 · 1Chr 4:10 · Ps 67:1 · Ps 67:6 · Ps 115:12 · +11 more

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

28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”Cross-references: Gen 17:5 · Gen 17:15 · Gen 25:31 · Gen 27:33 · Gen 31:24 · Gen 31:36 · +15 more

29Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.Cross-references: Gen 27:28 · Gen 28:3 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 32:26 · Deut 29:29 · Judg 13:16 · +5 more

30Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”Cross-references: Gen 16:13 · Gen 28:19 · Ex 24:10 · Ex 33:14 · Ex 33:19 · Num 12:8 · +16 more

31The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.Cross-references: Gen 19:15 · Gen 19:23 · Gen 32:25 · Judg 8:8 · Ps 38:17 · Mal 4:2 · +2 more

32Therefore 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 5:5