1 Laban rose early in the morning and kissed Jacob’s children and his own daughters, and blessed them Then Laban departed and returned home 2 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of the Lord met him 3 When Jacob saw them he said, “These are not the camps of Esau that are coming to meet me, and neither are they the camps of Laban that are pursuing me again but they are the camps of the holy angels who have been sent from before the Lord” Therefore he called the name of that place, in the language of the Sanctuary, Mahanaim 4 Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Gabla to the territory of the Edomites 5 And he commanded them, saying, “Thus shall you say to my master Esau Thus says your servant Jacob I have sojourned with Laban, and I have tarried until now 6 And of all those things with which my father blessed me I have nothing I have but a few oxen and asses, sheep and menservants and maidservants, and I have sent to tell my master that that blessing has not profited me, and so that I might find mercy in your eyes, that you might not bear a grudge against me because of it” 7 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau He himself is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred warriors with him” 8 And Jacob was greatly afraid, because for twenty years he had not been concerned with the honor of his father and he was distressed and he divided the people who were with him and the sheep and oxen and camels into two camps, as a present for Leah and as a present for Rachel 9 And he said, “If Esau comes to the camp of one of them and smites it, the camp that remains will escape” 10 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham, You who are also the God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your native country, and I will do you good’ 11 I am not worthy and I am too little for all the benefits and all the fidelity which you have shown your servant For with my staff alone I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps 12 Deliver me now from the hand of my older brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him for he has been concerned with the honor of his father lest he come and smite us the mother with the children 13 But you have assured me, ‘I will surely do you good, and I will make your children as numerous as the sand of the sea that cannot be numbered for multitude’” 14 He passed that night there, and from what happened to be at hand he took a gift for his brother Esau 15 Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams 16 The female camels with their young were thirty forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten Libyan asses 17 He arranged them in the hands of his servants, each herd separately, and he said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and leave a distance between one herd and the other” 18 Then he commanded the first, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you traveling to? And whose herds are these before you?’ 19 You shall say, ‘To your servant Jacob it is a gift that has been sent to my master Esau and behold he too is coming after us’” 20 He also commanded the second and the third and all who were following the herds, saying, “Thus shall you speak with Esau when you reach him 21 And you shall say, ‘Moreover, behold, your servant Jacob is coming behind us’ For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I will see his face Oh that he would show me favor” 22 So the gift passed on ahead of him, but he himself passed that night in the camp 23 He arose that night and took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok 24 He took them and sent them across the stream, and he sent what belonged to him across 25 Jacob was left alone beyond the Jabbok And an angel in the form of a man wrestled with him And he said, “Did you not promise to tithe all that would be yours? Now behold, you have twelve sons and one daughter, and you have not tithed them” Immediately he set aside the four first-born of the four mothers, and there remained eight And he began to count from Simeon, and Levi happened to be the tenth⁠a Michael spoke up and said, “Master of the world, this one is your lot” It was on account of these things that he tarried beyond the stream until the column of the dawn rose 26 When he saw that he had no power to harm him, he touched the socket of his hip, and he dislocated the socket of Jacob’s hip when he wrestled with him 27 And he said, “Let me go, for the column of the dawn has risen, and the hour has come when the angels on high praise the Lord of the world, and I am one of the angels who praise but from the day that the world was created my time to praise did not come until this time” And he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me” 28 And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob” 29 He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob but Israel, because you have gained superiority over the angels of the Lord and over men, and you have prevailed against them” 30 Jacob asked and said, “Tell me your name, I pray” And he said, “Why do you ask my name?” And Jacob blessed him there 31 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, because he said, “I have seen the angels of the Lord face to face, and my life has been saved” 32 The sun, which had set before its time for his sake when he was going out from Beer-sheba, rose for him before its time as he passed Penuel And he began to walk, and he was limping on his hip 33 Therefore, to this day the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip that is on the socket of the hip of cattle and of wild animals, because the angel touched and held the socket of Jacob’s right hip, in the place of the sinew of the hip