Genesis 32 (NET)

Genesis 32:1¹So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:2²When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:3³Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:4⁴He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:5⁵I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:6⁶The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has 400 men with him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:7⁷Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:8⁸“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought, “then the other camp will be able to escape.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:9⁹Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:10¹⁰I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:11¹¹Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:12¹²But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:13¹³Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother EsauCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:14¹⁴200 female goats and 20 male goats, 200 ewes and 20 rams,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:15¹⁵30 female camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, and 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:16¹⁶He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:17¹⁷He instructed the servant leading the first herd, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:18¹⁸then you must say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:19¹⁹He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:20²⁰You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought, “I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:21²¹So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:22²²During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:23²³He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:24²⁴So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:25²⁵When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:26²⁶Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:27²⁷The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:28²⁸“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:29²⁹Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:30³⁰So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:31³¹The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 32:32³²That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s