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Themes in Genesis 32
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Themes in Genesis 32

Genesis 32:1

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

Genesis 32:2

And when he saw them, Jacob said, "This [is] the camp of God!" And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32:3

Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

Genesis 32:4

And he instructed them, saying, "Thus you must say to my lord, to Esau, 'Thus says your servant Jacob, I have dwelled as an alien with Laban, and I have remained [there] until now.

Genesis 32:5

And I have acquired cattle, male donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves, and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.'"

Genesis 32:6

And the messengers returned to Jacob [and] said, "We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men [are] with him."

Genesis 32:7

Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that [were] with him into two companies.

Genesis 32:8

And he thought, "If Esau comes to one company and destroys it, the remaining company will be [able] to escape."

Genesis 32:9

Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.'

Genesis 32:10

{I am not worthy} of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant, for with [only] my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

Genesis 32:11

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children [alike].

Genesis 32:12

Now you yourself said, 'I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring as the sand of the sea that cannot be counted for abundance.'"

Genesis 32:13

And he lodged there that night. Then he took {from what he had with him} a gift for Esau his brother:

Genesis 32:14

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

Genesis 32:15

thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 32:16

And he put [them] under the hand of his servants, {herd by herd}, and said to his servants, "Cross on ahead before me, and put some distance {between herds}.

Genesis 32:17

And he instructed the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother comes upon you and asks you, saying, 'Whose [are] you and where are you going? To whom do these [animals] belong ahead of you?'

Genesis 32:18

Then you must say, 'To your servant, to Jacob. It [is] a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. Now behold, he [is] also [coming] after us.'"

Genesis 32:19

And he also instructed the second [servant] and the third, and everyone [else] who [was] behind the herds, saying, "You must speak to Esau according to this word when you find him.

Genesis 32:20

And moreover, you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob [is] behind us.'" For he thought, "{Let me appease him} with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will {show me favor}."

Genesis 32:21

So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.

Genesis 32:22

That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 32:23

And he took them and sent them across the stream. Then he sent across all his possessions.

Genesis 32:24

And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn.

Genesis 32:25

And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him.

Genesis 32:26

Then he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

Genesis 32:27

Then he said to him, "What [is] your name?" And he said, "Jacob."

Genesis 32:28

And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."

Genesis 32:29

Then Jacob asked and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why do you ask this--for my name?" And he blessed him there.

Genesis 32:30

Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [which means] "I have seen God face to face and my life was spared."

Genesis 32:31

Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Genesis 32:32

Therefore the {Israelites} do not eat the sinew of the sciatic nerve that [is] upon the socket of the hip unto this day, because he struck the socket of the thigh of Jacob at the sinew of the sciatic nerve.
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