Search results for: Genesis 32:24-29
Genesis 32:24 (NIV)
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
Genesis 32:25 (NIV)
When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
Genesis 32:26 (NIV)
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Genesis 32:27 (NIV)
The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
Genesis 32:28 (NIV)
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Genesis 32:29 (NIV)
Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
Genesis 32:1 (NIV)
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis 32:2 (NIV)
When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
Genesis 32:3 (NIV)
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Genesis 32:4 (NIV)
He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.
Genesis 32:5 (NIV)
I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’ ”
Genesis 32:6 (NIV)
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
Genesis 32:7 (NIV)
In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
Genesis 32:8 (NIV)
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”
Genesis 32:9 (NIV)
Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord , you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’
Genesis 32:10 (NIV)
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Genesis 32:11 (NIV)
Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
Genesis 32:12 (NIV)
But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’ ”
Genesis 32:13 (NIV)
He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
Genesis 32:14 (NIV)
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Genesis 32:15 (NIV)
thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
Genesis 32:16 (NIV)
He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”
Genesis 32:17 (NIV)
He instructed the one in the lead: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’
Genesis 32:18 (NIV)
then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’ ”
Genesis 32:19 (NIV)
He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.