# Genesis 32

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. [2] When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim. [3] Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. [4] He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now. [5] I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’” [6] When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.” [7] In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels. [8] He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.” [9] Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’ [10] I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps. [11] Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me. [12] But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’” [13] Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau: [14] 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, [15] 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys. [16] He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.” [17] He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’ [18] then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’” [19] He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him. [20] You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.” [21] So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp. [22] During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. [23] He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. [24] So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak. [25] When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled. [26] Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” [27] “What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied. [28] Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.” [29] And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there. [30] So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” [31] The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip. [32] Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.

## Places in this chapter

- **Penuel** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/penuel
- **Mahanaim** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/mahanaim
- **Jordan** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jordan
- **Jabbok** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jabbok
- **Mount Seir 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/mount-seir-1
- **Edom** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/edom

## Who appears in this chapter

- **Jacob** (Israel) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/people/jacob

## Each verse

- Genesis 32:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/1
- Genesis 32:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/2
- Genesis 32:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/3
- Genesis 32:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/4
- Genesis 32:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/5
- Genesis 32:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/6
- Genesis 32:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/7
- Genesis 32:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/8
- Genesis 32:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/9
- Genesis 32:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/10
- Genesis 32:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/11
- Genesis 32:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/12
- Genesis 32:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/13
- Genesis 32:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/14
- Genesis 32:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/15
- Genesis 32:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/16
- Genesis 32:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/17
- Genesis 32:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/18
- Genesis 32:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/19
- Genesis 32:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/20
- Genesis 32:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/21
- Genesis 32:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/22
- Genesis 32:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/23
- Genesis 32:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/24
- Genesis 32:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/25
- Genesis 32:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/26
- Genesis 32:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/27
- Genesis 32:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/28
- Genesis 32:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/29
- Genesis 32:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/30
- Genesis 32:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/31
- Genesis 32:32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/32/32