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32:3 Yacob sends gifts ahead for Esaw
3 Then Yacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esaw in the Se’ir region in the country of Edom, 4 instructing them, “This is what you’ll say to my master, to Esaw: ‘This is what your servant Yacob says, “I have been staying with Uncle Lavan and have remained there until now. 5 Now 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.” ’ ”
6 In due course the messengers returned to Yacob, saying, “We went to your brother Esaw and now he’s coming to meet you along with his four hundred men!” 7 This 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, 8 reasoning, “If Esaw comes and attacks one camp, then the camp that’s left can escape.”
9 Then 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,’ 10 I’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. 11 Please save me from my brother Esaw, because I’m afraid that he’ll come and attack me and the mothers with the children. 12 But 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.’ ”
13 Then he stayed there for that night and he selected gifts for his brother Esaw from what he had with him: 14 two hundred female and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female and ten male donkeys. 16 Then 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.” 17 And he instructed the first one, saying, “When Esaw 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?’ 18 then you should answer, ‘They belong to your servant Yacob. They are a gift sent to my master Esaw. In fact, he’s coming along behind us.’ ” 19 Then Yacob also instructed the second and third slaves, as well as everyone who followed behind the herds, telling them, “Say the same thing to Esaw when you find him, 20 and 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.” 21 So 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
22 Then 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. 23 After crossing the stream, he also sent across everything else that belonged to him. 24 Then Yacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until dawn.[ref] 25 When 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. 26 Then 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.
30 So 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.” 31 And the sun rose above him as he passed through Penu’el, and he was limping because of his hip. 32 That’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.
Genesis 21-35
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
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