1 Jacó prossegui o seu caminho e encontrou uns anjos de Deus.2 Ao vê-los, exclamou: "É aqui o acampamento de Deus!" Por isso deu àquele lugar o nome de Maanaim.3 Despachou diante de si mensageiros a seu irmão Esaú, na terra de Seir, nos campos de Edom.4 E deu-lhes esta ordem: "Eis o que direis ao meu senhor Esaú: Assim fala o teu servo Jacó: Habitei em casa de Labão onde estive até o dia de hoje.5 Possuo bois, jumentos, ovelhas, servos e servas, e mando agora anunciá-lo ao meu senhor para encontrar graça diante dele."6 Os mensageiros voltaram a Jacó, dizendo: "Fomos ter com Esaú: ele vem ao teu encontro com quatrocentos homens."7 Jacó foi tomado de pavor e de angústia. Dividiu em dois grupos a gente que estava com ele, assim como as ovelhas, os bois e os camelos.8 "Se Esaú, disse ele consigo, atacar um dos grupos e o destruir, ao menos o outro se salvará."9 Depois Jacó disse: "Deus de meu pai Abraão, Deus de meu pai Isaac, Senhor que me dissesses: Volta para a tua terra, para o meio de tua parentela, e eu te beneficiarei,10 eu sou indigno de todos os favores e de toda a fidelidade que tendes testemunhado ao vosso servo. Só tinha o meu bastão quando atravessei este Jordão, e eis que possuo agora dois acampamentos.11 Salvai-me, eu vos peço, das mãos de meu irmão Esaú, pois temo que ele me venha atacar, sem poupar nem mãe nem filhos.12 Entretanto, vós me dissestes: Eu te beneficiarei e tornarei tua posteridade inumerável como os grãos de areia do mar."13 Jacó passou a noite naquele lugar. Escolheu entre os bens que possuía um presente para o seu irmão Esaú:14 duzentas cabras, vinte bodes, duzentas ovelhas, vinte carneiros,15 trinta camelas com suas crias, quarenta vacas, dez touros, vinte jumentas e dez jumentos.16 Entregou-os aos servos, cada rebanho à parte, e disse-lhes: "Ide adiante de mim, e haja uma distância entre cada rebanho."17 E deu esta ordem ao primeiro: "Quando meu irmão Esaú te encontrar e te perguntar quem és, aonde vais, e a quem pertence o rebanho que conduzes,18 responderás: Pertence ao teu servo Jacó; é um presente que ele manda ao meu senhor Esaú; ele mesmo vem atrás de nós."19 Deu a mesma ordem ao segundo, ao terceiro e a todos os que conduziam os rebanhos: "Quando encontrardes Esaú, disse ele, vós lhe direis a mesma coisa.20 E direis que seu servo Jacó vos segue." "Eu o aplacarei, pensou ele, com este presente que me precede; e depois o verei pessoalmente; talvez me fará ele bom acolhimento."21 Foi, pois, o presente adiante dele, e ele ficou aquela noite no acampamento.22 Naquela mesma noite ele se levantou com suas duas mulheres, suas duas servas e seus onze filhos e passou o vau do Jaboc.23 Tomou-os, e os fez passar a torrente com tudo o que lhe pertencia.24 Jacó ficou só; e alguém lutava com ele até o romper da aurora.25 Vendo que não podia vencê-lo, tocou-lhe aquele homem na articulação da coxa e esta deslocou-se, enquanto Jacó lutava com ele.26 E disse-lhe: "Deixa-me partir, porque a aurora se levanta." "Não te deixarei partir respondeu Jacó, antes que me tenhas abençoado."27 Ele perguntou-lhe: "Qual é o teu nome?" "Jacó."28 "Teu nome não será mais Jacó, tornou ele, mas Israel, porque lutaste com Deus e com os homens, e venceste." Jacó perguntou-lhe:29 "Peço-te que me digas qual é o teu nome." "Por que me perguntas o meu nome?", respondeu ele. E abençoou-o no mesmo lugar.30 Jacó chamou àquele lugar Fanuel: "porque, disse ele, eu vi a Deus face a face, e conservei a vida".31 O sol levantava-se no horizonte, quando ele passou Fanuel. E coxeava de uma perna.32 É por isso que os israelitas, ainda hoje, não comem o nervo da articulação da coxa, porque aquele homem tinha tocado nesse nervo da articulação da coxa de Jacó.

1 And Jacob went on his way, and there met him angels of God.2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is a host of God; and he called the name of that place Machanayim.3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord, to Esau, Thus hath said thy servant Jacob, With Laban have I sojourned, and stayed until now.5 And I have acquired oxen, and asses, flocks, and men–servants, and women–servants; and I send now to tell my lord, to find grace in thy eyes.6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and he felt distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two bands.8 And he said, If Esau should come to the one band and smite it, then the other band which is left may escape.9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy birthplace, and I will deal well with thee:10 I am not worthy of all the kindness, and of all the truth, which thou hast shown unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, the mother with the children.12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.13 And he lodged there that same night; and he took of that which he carried with him a present for Esau his brother:14 Two hundred she–goats, and twenty he–goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams.15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty she–asses, and ten foals.16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and he said unto his servants, Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother should meet thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither art thou going? and for whom are these before thee?18 Then shalt thou say, They belong to thy servant, to Jacob; it is a present sent unto my lord, to Esau; and, behold, also, he is himself behind us.19 And so he commanded also the second, also the third, as also all that followed the droves, saying, After this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.20 And say ye moreover, Behold, also thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will receive me kindly.21 The present went thus on before him; and he lodged himself that night in the camp.22 And he rose up that night, and he took his two wives, and his two women–servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Yabbok.23 And he took them, and sent them over the stream and sent over what he had.24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.25 And when he saw that he could net prevail against him, he struck against the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was put out of joint, as he was wrestling with him.26 And he said, Let me go, for the day hath dawned. And he said, I will not let thee go until thou hast blessed me.27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? and he said, Jacob.28 And he said, Not Jacob shall any more be called thy name, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.29 And Jacob asked him, and said, tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen an angel of God face to face, and my life hath been preserved.31 And the sun rose unto him as he passed by Penuel, and he halted upon his thigh.32 Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he struck against the hollow of Jacob’s thigh on the sinew that shrank.