VIN(i)
1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 And when Jacob saw them he said, This is the camp of God. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in Seir, the country of Edom.
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.
5 And I have oxen and donkeys, flocks and men-servants and maid-servants. And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.
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."
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and herds, and camels, into two bands;
8 He thought: "If Esau comes and attacks the first group, the other may be able to escape."
9 Then Jacob prayed: "O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me: 'Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you.'
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.
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.
12 And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that night. Then he took from what he had with him a gift for Esau his brother:
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
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.
17 He commanded the first servant: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and whose animals are these ahead of you?'
18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Look, he also is behind us.'"
19 He also commanded the second servant, the third, and all the others who followed the herds. He said: »Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.
20 And say moreover, 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.
21 So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.
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.
23 And he took them and sent them across the stream. Then he sent across all his possessions.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning.
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.
26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
27 Then he asked: "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
29 Jacob said: "Please tell me your name." The man answered: "Why do you ask for my name?" Then he blessed Jacob there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered.
31 Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
32 Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat of the sinew of the thigh, which is on the hip-socket, until this day, because He touched Jacob's hip-socket, the sinew of the thigh.