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OET-RV GEN Chapter 32

OETGEN 32 ©

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32:1 Yacob encounters God’s messengers

32Then Yacob continued on his way with his family and flocks, and some of God’s messengers met him 2and when he saw them, Yacob said, “This must be God’s army camp.” So he named that place ‘Mahanaim’ (which means ‘two camps’).

32:3 Yacob sends gifts ahead for Esau

3Then Yacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the Se’ir region in the country of Edom, 4instructing them, “This is what you’ll say to my master, to Esau: ‘This is what your servant Yacob says, “I have been staying with Uncle Lavan and have remained there until now. 5Now I have cattle and donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves. And I’ve sent these messengers to speak with my master, so that I’ll find favour in your eyes.” ’ ”

6In due course the messengers returned to Yacob, saying, “We went to your brother Esau and now he’s coming to meet you along with his four hundred men!” 7This made Yacob very scared and distressed, so he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups, 8reasoning, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the camp that’s left can escape.”

9Then he prayed, “Yahweh, God of my grandfather Abraham, and God of my father Yitshak, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives, and I will cause things to prosper with you,’ 10I’m unworthy of all the kindnesses and of all the faithfulness that you have shown me your slave, because I crossed this Jordan River with only my staff, but now I’ve become two camps. 11Please save me from my brother Esau, because I’m afraid that he’ll come and attack me and the mothers with the children. 12But you said,[ref] ‘I will surely cause things to prosper with you, and I’ll make your descendants as numerous as the sand grains on the beach which are too many to be counted.’ ”

13Then he stayed there for that night and he selected gifts for his brother Esau from what he had with him: 14two hundred female and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female and ten male donkeys. 16Then he handed them over to his slaves, each herd by itself, and he told them, “Go ahead of me one by one, and keep a space between each herd.” 17And he instructed the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘Who do you belong to, and where are you going? And who do those animals belong to?’ 18then you should answer, ‘They belong to your servant Yacob. They are a gift sent to my master Esau. In fact, he’s coming along behind us.’ ” 19Then Yacob also instructed the second and third slaves, as well as everyone who followed behind the herds, telling them, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20and also say, ‘Look, your servant Yacob is behind us.’ ” Yacob was thinking, “I’ll cheer him up with the gifts that are going ahead of me, and after that, when I see him in person, perhaps he’ll accept me.” 21So the gifts went ahead of him, and he himself stayed in the camp for that night.

32:22 Yacob gets renamed after fighting at Penu’el

22Then during that night, Yacob got up and took his two wives and their two female slaves and his eleven sons and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok Stream. 23After crossing the stream, he also sent across everything else that belonged to him. 24Then Yacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until dawn.[ref] 25When the man realised he wasn’t gaining on him, he touched Yacob on the socket of his hip so that it became dislocated as they wrestled with each other. 26Then the man said, “Release me now, because it’s already dawning.”

“I won’t release you until you bless me,” Yacob responded. 27“What’s your name?” the man asked.

“Yacob,” he replied.

28“You won’t be called Yacob anymore,” the man said, “but you’ll be ‘Yisra’el’ (or ‘Israel’, which means ‘he struggled with God’), because you have struggled with God and with men, and you won.”[ref]

29“Please tell me your name,” Yacob requested.[ref]

“Why would you want to know my name?” the man replied, then he blessed Yacob there.

30So Yacob named the place ‘Penu’el’ (also spelt ‘Peni’el’, which means ‘God’s face’), because he said, “I saw God face to face, yet my life was preserved.” 31And the sun rose above him as he passed through Penu’el, and he was limping because of his hip. 32That’s why Israelis don’t eat the muscle of the tendon that is on the hip socket to this day, because the man touched the socket of Yacob’s hip on the muscle of the tendon.


32:12: Gen 22:17.

32:24-26: Hos 12:3-4.

32:28: Gen 35:10.

32:29: Jdg 13:17-18.

OETGEN 32 ©

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