1 Iacob quoque abiit itinere quo coeperat
fueruntque ei obviam angeli Dei
2 quos cum vidisset ait castra Dei sunt haec
et appellavit nomen loci illius Manaim id est Castra
3 misit autem et nuntios ante se ad Esau fratrem suum
in terram Seir regionis Edom
4 praecepitque eis dicens sic loquimini domino meo Esau
haec dicit frater tuus Iacob
apud Laban peregrinatus sum et fui usque in praesentem diem
5 habeo boves et asinos oves et servos atque ancillas
mittoque nunc legationem ad dominum meum
ut inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo
6 reversi sunt nuntii ad Iacob dicentes
venimus ad Esau fratrem tuum
et ecce properat in occursum tibi cum quadringentis
viris
7 timuit Iacob valde et perterritus divisit populum qui secum erat
greges quoque et oves et boves et camelos in duas
turmas
8 dicens
si venerit Esau ad unam turmam et percusserit eam
alia turma quae reliqua est salvabitur
9 dixitque Iacob Deus patris mei Abraham et Deus patris mei Isaac
Domine qui dixisti mihi
revertere in terram tuam et in locum nativitatis tuae et benefaciam tibi
10 minor sum cunctis miserationibus et veritate
quam explesti servo tuo
in baculo meo transivi Iordanem istum
et nunc cum duabus turmis regredior
11 erue me de manu fratris mei de manu Esau
quia valde eum timeo ne forte veniens percutiat matrem cum filiis
12 tu locutus es quod bene mihi faceres
et dilatares semen meum sicut harenam maris
quae prae multitudine numerari non potest
13 cumque dormisset ibi nocte illa
separavit de his quae habebat munera Esau fratri suo
14 capras ducentas hircos viginti oves ducentas arietes viginti
15 camelos fetas cum pullis suis triginta
vaccas quadraginta et tauros viginti
asinas viginti et pullos earum decem
16 et misit per manus servorum suorum singulos seorsum greges
dixitque pueris suis
antecedite me et sit spatium inter gregem et gregem
17 et praecepit priori dicens
si obvium habueris Esau fratrem meum
et interrogaverit te cuius es et quo vadis
et cuius sunt ista quae sequeris
18 respondebis servi tui Iacob munera misit domino meo Esau
ipse quoque post nos venit
19 similiter mandata dedit secundo ac
tertio
et cunctis qui sequebantur greges dicens
hisdem verbis loquimini ad Esau cum inveneritis eum
20 et addetis ipse quoque servus tuus Iacob iter nostrum insequitur
dixit enim placabo illum muneribus quae praecedunt
et postea videbo
forsitan propitiabitur mihi
21 praecesserunt itaque munera ante eum
ipse vero mansit nocte illa in Castris
22 cumque mature surrexisset
tulit duas uxores suas et totidem famulas cum undecim filiis
et transivit vadum Iaboc
23 transductisque omnibus quae ad se pertinebant
24 remansit solus et ecce vir luctabatur cum eo usque mane
25 qui cum videret quod eum superare non posset
tetigit nervum femoris eius et statim emarcuit
26 dixitque ad eum dimitte me iam enim ascendit aurora
respondit non dimittam te nisi benedixeris mihi
27 ait ergo quod nomen est tibi
respondit Iacob
28 at ille nequaquam inquit Iacob appellabitur nomen tuum sed Israhel
quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti
quanto magis contra homines praevalebis
29 interrogavit eum Iacob dic mihi quo appellaris nomine
respondit cur quaeris nomen meum
et benedixit ei in eodem loco
30 vocavitque Iacob nomen loci illius Phanuhel dicens
vidi Deum facie ad faciem et salva facta est anima mea
31 ortusque est ei statim sol postquam transgressus est Phanuhel
ipse vero claudicabat pede
32 quam ob causam non comedunt filii Israhel nervum
qui emarcuit in femore Iacob usque in praesentem diem
eo quod tetigerit nervum femoris eius et obstipuerit
1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 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: 5 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.
6 ¶ 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. 7 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; 8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
9 ¶ 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: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. 11 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. 12 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.
13 ¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 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. 17 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? 18 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. 19 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. 20 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. 21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. 22 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. 23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 ¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 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. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 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. 29 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. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 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.