BERESHITH (GENESIS) 32

Gen 32:1 And Ya‛aqoḇ went on his way, and the messengers of Elohim met
him.
Gen 32:2 And when Ya‛aqoḇ saw them, he said, “This is the camp of
Elohim.” And he called the name of that place Maḥanayim.
Gen 32:3 And Ya‛aqoḇ sent messengers before him to Ĕsaw his brother in
the land of Sĕ‛ir, the field of Eḏom
Gen 32:4 and he commanded them, saying, “Say this to my master Ĕsaw,
‘Your servant Ya‛aqoḇ said this, “I have sojourned with Laḇan and stayed
there until now.
Gen 32:5 “And I have bulls, and donkeys, flocks, and male and female
servants. And I have sent to inform my master, to find favour in your eyes.” ’
”
Gen 32:6 So the messengers returned to Ya‛aqoḇ, saying, “We came to your
brother Ĕsaw, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with
him.”
Gen 32:7 And Ya‛aqoḇ was greatly afraid and distressed. So he divided the
people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two
groups,
Gen 32:8 and he said, “If Ĕsaw comes to the one group and attacks it, then
the other group which is left shall escape.”
Gen 32:9 And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “O Elohim of my father Aḇraham and Elohim
of my father Yitsḥaq, יהוה who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your
relatives, and I do good to you,’
Gen 32:10 “I do not deserve the least of all the kind acts and all the truth
which You have shown Your servant, for I passed over this Yardĕn with my
staff, and now I have become two groups.
Gen 32:11 “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of
Ĕsaw, for I fear him, lest he come and shall smite me and the mother with the
children.
Gen 32:12 “For You said, ‘I shall certainly do good to you, and shall make
your seed as the sand of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’ ”
Gen 32:13 And he spent the night there, and took what came to his hand as a
present for Ĕsaw his brother –
Gen 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred
ewes and twenty rams,
Gen 32:15 thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls,
twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
Gen 32:16 And he gave into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself,
and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance
between drove and drove.”
Gen 32:17 And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Ĕsaw my brother
meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you
going? And whose are these in front of you?’
Gen 32:18 then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Ya‛aqoḇ’s. It is a
present sent to my master Ĕsaw. And see, he also is behind us.’ ”
Gen 32:19 So he commanded the second, and the third, and all who
followed the droves, saying, “Speak to Ĕsaw this same word when you find
him,
Gen 32:20 and you shall say, ‘Also look, your servant Ya‛aqoḇ is behind
us.’ ” For he said, “Let me appease him with the present that goes before me,
and after that see his face. He might accept me.”
Gen 32:21 And the present passed over before him, but he himself spent the
night in the camp.
Gen 32:22 And he rose up that night and took his two wives, and his two
female servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Yabboq.
Gen 32:23 And he took them and sent them over the stream, and sent over
what he had.
Gen 32:24 And Ya‛aqoḇ was left alone. And a Man wrestled with him until
the breaking of day.
Gen 32:25 And when He saw that He did not overcome him, He touched the
socket of his hip. And the socket of Ya‛aqoḇ’s hip was dislocated as He
wrestled with him.
Gen 32:26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I am
not letting You go until You have blessed me!”
Gen 32:27 So He asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Ya‛aqoḇ.”
Gen 32:28 And He said, “Your name is no longer called Ya‛aqoḇ, but
Yisra’ĕl, because you have striven with Elohim and with men, and have
overcome.”
Gen 32:29 And Ya‛aqoḇ asked Him, saying, “Please let me know Your
Name.” And He said, “Why do you ask about My Name?” And He blessed
him there.
Gen 32:30 And Ya‛aqoḇ called the name of the place Peni’ĕl, “For I have
seen Elohim face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Gen 32:31 And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penu’ĕl, and he
limped on his hip.
Gen 32:32 That is why the children of Yisra’ĕl to this day do not eat the
sinew of the hip, which is on the socket of the thigh, because He touched the
socket of the thigh of Ya‛aqoḇ, in the sinew of the hip.