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Themes in Genesis 32
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Themes in Genesis 32

Genesis 32:1

But Jacob went forth on his journey. And the angels of God came and met him.

Genesis 32:2

And when Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's host," and called the name of that same place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32:3

Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir and the field of Edom.

Genesis 32:4

And he commanded them, saying, "See that ye speak after this manner to my LORD Esau, 'thy servant, Jacob, sayeth thus: I have sojourned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time;

Genesis 32:5

and have gotten oxen, asses and sheep, menservants and womenservants, and have sent to show it my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.'"

Genesis 32:6

And the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, "We came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee; and four hundred men with him."

Genesis 32:7

Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,

Genesis 32:8

and said, "If Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other may save itself."

Genesis 32:9

And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, 'return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.'

Genesis 32:10

I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this Jordan, and now have I gotten two droves.

Genesis 32:11

Deliver me from the hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother with the children.

Genesis 32:12

Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude."

Genesis 32:13

And he tarried there that same night, and took of that which came to hand, a present, unto Esau his brother:

Genesis 32:14

Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats: two hundred sheep and twenty rams:

Genesis 32:15

thirty milch camels with their colts: forty cows and ten bulls: twenty she asses and ten foals

Genesis 32:16

and delivered them unto his servants, every drove by themselves, and said unto them, "Go forth before me, and put a space betwixt every drove."

Genesis 32:17

And he commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee, saying, 'whose servant art thou and whither goest thou, and whose are these that go before thee?'

Genesis 32:18

thou shalt say, 'they be thy servant Jacob's, and are a present sent unto my lord Esau, and behold, he himself cometh after us.'"

Genesis 32:19

And so commanded he the second, and even so the third, and likewise all that followed the droves, saying, "Of this manner see that ye speak unto Esau when ye meet him,

Genesis 32:20

and say moreover. 'Behold thy servant Jacob cometh after us.'" For he said, "I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will receive me to grace."

Genesis 32:21

So went the present before him, and he tarried all that night in the tent,

Genesis 32:22

and rose up the same night and took his two wives and his two maidens and his eleven sons, and went over the ford Jabbok.

Genesis 32:23

And he took them and sent them over the river, and sent over that he had,

Genesis 32:24

and tarried behind; himself alone. And there wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the day.

Genesis 32:25

And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he smote him under the thigh, and the sinew of Jacob's thigh shrank as he wrestled with him.

Genesis 32:26

And he said, "Let me go, for the day breaketh." And he said, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."

Genesis 32:27

And he said unto him, "What is thy name?" He answered, "Jacob."

Genesis 32:28

And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."

Genesis 32:29

And Jacob asked him, saying, "Tell me thy name." And he said, "Wherefore dost thou ask after my name?" And he blessed him there.

Genesis 32:30

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face, and yet is my life reserved."

Genesis 32:31

And as he went over Peniel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Genesis 32:32

Wherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank under the thigh, unto this day: because that he smote Jacob under the thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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