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Chapter 32
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Outline: Wrestling With the Angel |
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And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him. |
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And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host:
and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. |
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. |
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And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto
my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned
with Laban, and stayed there until now: |
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And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants,
and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that
I may find grace in thy sight. |
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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came
to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and
four hundred men with him. |
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he
divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and
herds, and the camels, into two bands; |
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And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite
it, then the other company which is left shall escape. |
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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of
my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return
unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well
with thee: |
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and
of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant;
for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I
am become two bands. |
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Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,
from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come
and smite me, and the mother with the children. |
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And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make
thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered
for multitude. |
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And he lodged there that same night; and took of that
which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; |
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Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred
ewes, and twenty rams, |
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and
ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. |
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants,
every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and
drove. |
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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother
meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou?
and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? |
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Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it
is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also
he is behind us. |
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And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all
that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall
ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. |
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And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind
us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that
goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure
he will accept of me. |
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So went the present over before him: and himself lodged
that night in the company. |
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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and
his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed
over the ford Jabbok. |
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And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent
over that he had. |
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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with
him until the breaking of the day. |
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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he
touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. |
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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he
said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. |
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And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said,
Jacob. |
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And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and
with men, and hast prevailed. |
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And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee,
thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask
after my name? And he blessed him there. |
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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. |
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And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and
he halted upon his thigh. |
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Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew
which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto
this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh
in the sinew that shrank. |
