[31:45] Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. [31:46] Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. [31:47] Laban called it [Jegar Sahadutha,] but Jacob called it [Galeed.] [31:48] Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed [31:49] and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. [31:50] If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." [31:51] Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. [31:52] May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. [31:53] The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. [31:54] Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. [31:55] Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
[32:1] Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. [32:2] When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
[32:3] Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. [32:4] He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. [32:5] I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'" [32:6] The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him." [32:7] Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; [32:8] and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape." [32:9] Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,' [32:10] I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. [32:11] Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children. [32:12] You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
[32:13] He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother: [32:14] two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, [32:15] thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. [32:16] He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd." [32:17] He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?' [32:18] Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'" [32:19] He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him. [32:20] You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
[32:21] So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
[32:22] He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. [32:23] He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. [32:24] Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. [32:25] When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled. [32:26] The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."
Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
[32:27] He said to him, "What is your name?"
He said, "Jacob." [32:28] He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
[32:29] Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."