1 Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim. [^2]3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.4 He instructed them: "This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: 'Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.5 I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.'"6 When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."7 In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, "and the flocks and herds and camels as well.8 He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, "the group "that is left may escape."9 Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.11 Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.12 But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.'"13 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.16 He 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."17 He instructed the one in the lead: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?'18 then 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.'"19 He 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.20 And 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."21 So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.25 When 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.26 Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."27 The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.28 Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, "because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome."29 Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, "saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, "and he was limping because of his hip.32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.

1 واما يعقوب فمضى في طريقه ولاقاه ملائكة الله.2 وقال يعقوب اذ رآهم هذا جيش الله. فدعا اسم ذلك المكان محنايم3 وارسل يعقوب رسلا قدامه الى عيسو اخيه الى ارض سعير بلاد ادوم.4 وامرهم قائلا هكذا تقولون لسيدي عيسو. هكذا قال عبدك يعقوب. تغربت عند لابان ولبثت الى الآن.5 وقد صار لي بقر وحمير وغنم وعبيد واماء. وارسلت لاخبر سيدي لكي اجد نعمة في عينيك6 فرجع الرسل الى يعقوب قائلين أتينا الى اخيك الى عيسو. وهو ايضا قادم للقائك واربع مئة رجل معه.7 فخاف يعقوب جدا وضاق به الامر. فقسم القوم الذين معه والغنم والبقر والجمال الى جيشين.8 وقال ان جاء عيسو الى الجيش الواحد وضربه يكون الجيش الباقي ناجيا9 وقال يعقوب يا اله ابي ابراهيم واله ابي اسحق الرب الذي قال لي ارجع الى ارضك والى عشيرتك فاحسن اليك.10 صغير انا عن جميع الطافك وجميع الامانة التي صنعت الى عبدك. فاني بعصاي عبرت هذا الاردن والآن قد صرت جيشين.11 نجّني من يد اخي من يد عيسو. لاني خائف منه ان يأتي ويضربني الام مع البنين.12 وانت قد قلت اني احسن اليك واجعل نسلك كرمل البحر الذي لا يعدّ للكثرة13 وبات هناك تلك الليلة واخذ مما اتى بيده هدية لعيسو اخيه.14 مئتي عنز وعشرين تيسا مئتي نعجة وعشرين كبشا15 ثلاثين ناقة مرضعة واولادها اربعين بقرة وعشرة ثيران عشرين اتانا وعشرة حمير.16 ودفعها الى يد عبيده قطيعا قطيعا على حدة. وقال لعبيده اجتازوا قدّامي واجعلوا فسحة بين قطيع وقطيع.17 وامر الاول قائلا اذا صادفك عيسو اخي وسألك قائلا لمن انت والى اين تذهب ولمن هذا الذي قدامك18 تقول لعبدك يعقوب. هو هدية مرسلة لسيدي عيسو. وها هو ايضا وراءنا.19 وامر ايضا الثاني والثالث وجميع السائرين وراء القطعان قائلا بمثل هذا الكلام تكلّمون عيسو حينما تجدونه.20 وتقولون هوذا عبدك يعقوب ايضا وراءنا. لانه قال استعطف وجهه بالهدية السائرة امامي وبعد ذلك انظر وجهه. عسى ان يرفع وجهي.21 فاجتازت الهدية قدامه. واما هو فبات تلك الليلة في المحلّة22 ثم قام في تلك الليلة واخذ امرأتيه وجاريتيه واولاده الاحد عشر وعبر مخاضة يبّوق.23 اخذهم واجازهم الوادي واجاز ما كان له.24 فبقي يعقوب وحده. وصارعه انسان حتى طلوع الفجر.25 ولما رأى انه لا يقدر عليه ضرب حقّ فخذه. فانخلع حقّ فخذ يعقوب في مصارعته معه.26 وقال اطلقني لانه قد طلع الفجر. فقال لا اطلقك ان لم تباركني.27 فقال له ما اسمك. فقال يعقوب.28 فقال لا يدعى اسمك في ما بعد يعقوب بل اسرائيل. لانك جاهدت مع الله والناس وقدرت.29 وسأل يعقوب وقال اخبرني باسمك. فقال لماذا تسأل عن اسمي. وباركه هناك30 فدعا يعقوب اسم المكان فنيئيل. قائلا لاني نظرت الله وجها لوجه ونجّيت نفسي.31 واشرقت له الشمس اذ عبر فنوئيل وهو يخمع على فخذه.32 لذلك لا يأكل بنو اسرائيل عرق النّسا الذي على حقّ الفخذ الى هذا اليوم. لانه ضرب حقّ فخذ يعقوب على عرق النّسا