Jacob Wrestles with God

22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children,¹ and crossed the ford of the ^fJabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 24 And Jacob was left alone. And ^ga man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, ^h“I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 Then he said, ⁱ“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,² for ^jyou have striven with God and ^kwith men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, ^l“Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,³ saying, “For ^mI have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed ⁿPenuel, limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the sinew of the thigh.

Jacob Meets Esau

1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, ^oEsau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants. 2 And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. 3 He himself went on before them, ^pbowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4 ^qBut Esau ran to meet him and embraced him ^rand fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 5 And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, ^s“The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6 Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down. 7 Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down. 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by ^tall this company¹ that I met?” Jacob answered, ^u“To find favor in the sight of my lord.” 9 But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.” 10 Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. ^vFor I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me. 11 Please accept my ^wblessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Thus he ^xurged him, and he took it.

12 Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead of² you.” 13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord ^yin Seir.”

15 So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? ^zLet me find favor in the sight of my lord.” 16 So Esau returned that day on his way to ^aSeir. 17 But Jacob journeyed to ^bSuccoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.³