Genesis 32 But Iacob went forth on his iourney. And the Angels of God came, & met hym.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ But Iacob went forth on his iourney. And the Angels of God came, & met hym. ² And when Iacob sawe them, he said thys is Goddes hoost: & called the name of that same place Mahanaim. ³ And Iacob sente messengers before him to Esau his brother, vnto the land of Seir & the felde of Edom. ⁴ And he commaunded them sayinge. Thus shall ye speake to my Lord Esau: thy seruaunte Iacob sayth thus: I haue sogeorned & bene a straunger wyth Laban vnto thys tym ⁵ and haue oxen, asses & shepe men seruauntes and wemenseruauntes, and haue sent to shewe it my Lorde, that I may fynde grace in thy syghte. ⁶ And the messengers came agayne to Iacob saying: we came vnto thy brother Esau, and he commeth agaynst the & hath .iiii. hundreth men wt hym. ⁷ But Iacob was greatly afrayed, and wyst not whych waye to turne hym selfe, and deuyded the people that was wyth hym & the shepe, & oxen & camels, into .ii. companyes: ⁸ & sayd: If Esau come to the one parte & smyte it, the other shall saue it selfe. ⁹ And Iacob sayde agayne: O God of my father Abraham; & God of my father Isahac: Lorde whych saydest vnto me returne vnto thy countre and to thy kynred, & I wyll do all well wyth the. ¹⁰ I am not worthy of the leaste of all the mercyes and truthe whych thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunte. For wyth my staf came I ouer thys Iordane, & now haue I gotten .ii. droues. ¹¹ Delyuer me from the handes of my brother Esau: for I feare hym: lest he wyll come and smyte the mother wyth the chyldren. ¹² Thou saydest: I wyll surely do the good, & make thy seed as the sande of the see, which can not be nombred for multytude. ¹³ And he taryed there that same nyghte, & toke of that whych came to hande, a present, for Esau hys brother ¹⁴ .ii. hundred she goates & .xx. he goates .ii. hundred shepe and .xx. rammes: ¹⁵ thyrtye mylch camels wyth theyr coltes .xl. kyne, & .x. bulles .xx. she asses & ten foles: ¹⁶ and delyuered them into the hande of hys seruaunes euery droue by them selues, and sayde vnto hys seruauntes: go forth before me, and put a space betwyxte, droue, & droue. ¹⁷ And he commaunded the formost sayinge. If Esau my brother mete the and aske the sayinge: whose art thou, and whyther goest thou: & whose are these that goo before the? ¹⁸ thou shalt saye, they be thy seruaunte Iacobs, and it is a present sent vnto my Lord Esau, and beholde, he hym selfe commeth after vs: ¹⁹ And so commaunded he the seconde, and the thyrde, and all that folowed the droues sayinge of thys maner se that ye speake vnto Esau when ye mete hym ²⁰ and saye moreouer: thy seruaunte Iacob also commeth after vs, for he sayde: I wyll pease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I wyll see hym my selfe, yf peraduenture he wyll receaue me to grace: ²¹ So went the present before hym and he taryed all that nyght in the company, and rose vp the same nyghte, ²² and toke hys two wyues and hys two maydens, and hys eleuen sonnes, and went ouer the foorde Iabok ²³ And he toke them and sent them ouer the ryuer, and sent ouer that he had, ²⁴ and taried behinde hym selfe alone. And there wrastled a man wyth hym vnto the breakynge of the daye. ²⁵ And when he sawe that he coulde not preuayle against hym, he smote hym vnder the thye, and the senowe of Iacobs thye shranke, as he wrastled wyth hym. ²⁶ And he sayde: let me goo, for the daye breaketh. Which answered: I wyll not let the goo, excepte thou blesse me. ²⁷ And he sayde vnto hym: what is thy name? He answered: Iacob. ²⁸ He sayde: thou shalt be called Iacob nomore, but Israell. For as a prynce hast thou wrastled wyth God: and wyth man, and hast preuayled. ²⁹ And Iacob asked hym sayinge: tell me thy name. And he sayde, wherfore dost thou so aske after my name? and he blessed hym there. ³⁰ And Iacob called the name of the place Pheniel, for I haue sene God face to face, & my lyfe is preserued. ³¹ And as he went ouer Pheniel, the sonne rose vpon hym, and he halted vpon hys thye. ³² And therfore is it that the chyldren of Israell eate not of the senow that shranke in that place of the thye, vnto thys daye: because that he touched the place of Iacobs thye in the senow that shroncke.