1 And Jacob had gone on his way, and messengers of God came on him. 2 And Jacob said, when he had seen them, “This is the camp of God.” And he called the name of that place “Two Camps.” 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau, toward the land of Seir, the field of Edom, 4 and commanded them, saying, “Say this to my lord, to Esau, your servant Jacob says this: I have sojourned with Laban, and I linger until now. 5 And I have ox, and donkey, flock, and manservant, and maidservant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.” 6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and 400 men with him.” 7 And Jacob feared exceedingly, and was distressed, and he divided the people who were with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps, 8 and said, “If Esau comes to one camp, and has struck it—then the camp which is left has been for an escape.” 9 And Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, YHWH who says to me, Return to your land and to your family, and I do good with you: 10 I have been unworthy of all the kind acts and of all the truth which You have done with your servant—for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, lest he come and has struck me—mother beside sons. 12 And You have said, I certainly do good with you, and have set your seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.” 13 And he lodged there during that night, and took from that which was coming into his hand, a present for his brother Esau: 14 female goats 200, and male goats twenty, ewes 200, and rams twenty, 15 suckling camels and their young ones 30, cows 40, and bullocks ten, female donkeys twenty, and foals ten. 16 And he gave it into the hand of his servants every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and a space you put between drove and drove.” 17 And he commanded the first, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you, and has asked you, saying, Whose are you? And to where do you go? And whose are these before you? 18 Then you have said, Your servant Jacob’s: it is a present sent to my lord, to Esau. And look, he also is behind us.” 19 And he commands also the second, also the third, also all who are going after the droves, saying, “According to this manner do you speak to Esau in your finding him, 20 and you have also said, Look, your servant Jacob is behind us”. For he said, “I pacify his face with the present which is going before me, and afterward I see his face. It may be he lifts up my face.” 21 And the present passed over before his face, and he had lodged during that night in the camp. 22 And he rose in that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and passed over the passage of Jabbok. 23 And he took them, and causes them to pass over the brook, and he causes that which he had to pass over. 24 And Jacob is left alone, and One wrestled with him until the ascending of the dawn. 25 And He saw that He was not able for him, and He comes against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was disjointed in his wrestling with Him. 26 and He said, “Send Me away, for the dawn has ascended”: and he said, “I do not send You away, except You have blessed me.” 27 And He said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 And He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel. For you have reigned with God and with men, and prevailed.” 29 And Jacob asked and said, “Please declare Your name.” And He said, “Why is this, you ask for My name?” And He blessed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is delivered.” 31 and the sun rose on him when he had passed over Penuel, and he was halting on his thigh. 32 Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because He came against the hollow of Jacob’s thigh, against the sinew which shrank.