And Jacob went forth into his own way. And having looked up, he saw of God encamped. And met with
said when he saw them, the camp And he called the name of that place, Camps.
sent messengers in front of him to Esau his brother, into of Seir into of Edom.
And he gave charge to them, saying, Thus you shall say my master Esau; Thus says your servant Jacob, with and passed time until the present.
And came to me oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, and manservants, and maidservants. And I sent to announce to my master Esau, that might find favor before you.
And returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau. And behold, he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.
feared exceedingly, and he was perplexed. And he divided the people, the one with himself, and the oxen, and the sheep into two camps.
And Jacob said, If Esau should come into camp and should smite it, will be for delivering.
said The God of my father Abraham, and the God of my father Isaac, O lord, the one saying to me, Run to the land of your birth! and good
It is fit to me for all righteousness, and of all truth, of which you did to your servant; for with my rod I passed over this Jordan, and now I exist in two camps.
Rescue me from of my brother, from of Esau! For I fear him, lest coming he should strike me, and with children.
But you, you said, good and I will establish your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be counted by the multitude.
And he went to sleep there that night. And he took of which and he sent to Esau his brother;
goats two hundred; he-goats twenty; sheep two hundred; rams twenty;
camels nursing and their offspring thirty; oxen forty; bulls ten; donkeys twenty; and foals ten.
And he gave them by hand his servants a flock alone. And he said his servants, You go forth in front of me, and a space between flock and flock.
And he gave charge to the first, saying, If should meet you and he should ask you, saying, Who are you? and where might you go? and who are these going before you?
You shall say, Your servant Jacob gifts to my master Esau. And behold, he us.
And he gave charge to the first, and to the second, and to the third, and to all the ones going before behind these flocks, saying, According to this saying you speak when you find him!
And you shall say, Behold, your servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will appease his face by the gifts going before him; and after this I will see his countenance, for perhaps he will favorably receive my person.
And went before his face. And he went to sleep that night in the camp.
And rising that night, he took the two wives, and the two maidservants, and the eleven children of his, and he passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
And he took them, and passed over the rushing stream, and he caused to pass over all the ones of his.
was left behind alone, and wrestled with him until morning.
And he saw that he was not able to prevail against him; and he touched the wide part of his thigh, and he paralyzed the wide part of the thigh of Jacob in his wrestling with him.
And he said to him, You send me away! ascended And he said, No way will I send you away if not
And he said to him, What name And he said, Jacob.
And he said to him, not Jacob, but Israel will be your name; for you grew in strength against God, and against men
asked and said, Announce to me your name! And he said, Why you ask my name, which is wonderful? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of that place, Sight of God. For I saw God face to face, and was delivered
arose when he went by the form of God, but he was limping in his thigh.
Because of this, no way eat the nerve he was paralyzed, which is upon the wide part of the thigh, until this day. For he touched the wide part of the thigh of Jacob, of the nerve, in which he was paralyzed.