创32:12But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' "

创32:13He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:

创32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

创32:15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

创32:16He 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."

创32:17He instructed the one in the lead: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?'

创32:18then 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.' "

创32:19He 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.

创32:20And be sure to say, 'Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.' " For he thought, "I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me."

创32:21So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

创32:22That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

创32:23After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.

创32:24So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.

创32:25When 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.

创32:26Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

创32:27The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.

创32:28Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."

创32:29Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

创32:30So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."

创32:31The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.