Genesis Chapter 32

• Genesis 32:1
  Genesis.
• Genesis 32:2
  Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
• Genesis 32:3
  When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
• Genesis 32:4
  Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
• Genesis 32:5
  He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban...
• Genesis 32:6
  I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
• Genesis 32:7
  The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
• Genesis 32:8
  Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two ...
• Genesis 32:9
  He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
• Genesis 32:10
  Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I wil...
• Genesis 32:11
  I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crosse...
• Genesis 32:12
  Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.
• Genesis 32:13
  You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
• Genesis 32:14
  He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:
• Genesis 32:15
  two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
• Genesis 32:16
  thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
• Genesis 32:17
  He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd a...
• Genesis 32:18
  He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these befor...
• Genesis 32:19
  Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”
• Genesis 32:20
  He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
• Genesis 32:21
  You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me...
• Genesis 32:22
  So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
• Genesis 32:23
  He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
• Genesis 32:24
  He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
• Genesis 32:25
  Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
• Genesis 32:26
  When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
• Genesis 32:27
  The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
• Genesis 32:28
  He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
• Genesis 32:29
  He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
• Genesis 32:30
  Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.
• Genesis 32:31
  Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
• Genesis 32:32
  The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
• Genesis 32:33
  Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Ja...