1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God’s army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. 4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’" 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him." 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies. 8 He said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape." 9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’ 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children. 12 You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’"

13 He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd." 17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’ 18 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’" 19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him. 20 You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. 24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. 25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled. 26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."

Jacob said, "I won’t let you go unless you bless me."

27 He said to him, "What is your name?"

He said, "Jacob".

28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

29 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."

He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" So he blessed him there.

30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

1 Jakob het ook verder gereis, en die engele van God het hom ontmoet.

2 Toe hy hulle sien, sê Jakob: Dit is 'n leër van God! En hy het die plek Mahan im genoem.

3 En Jakob het boodskappers uitgestuur voor hom uit na sy broer Esau in die land Se‹r, die landstreek van Edom,

4 en aan hulle bevel gegee met die woorde: So moet julle aan my heer, aan Esau, sê: So sê Jakob, u dienaar -- ek het as vreemdeling vertoef by Laban en daar gebly tot nou toe;

5 en ek het beeste en esels, kleinvee en slawe en slavinne verwerf, en my heer dit laat weet, sodat ek guns mag vind in u oë.

6 En die boodskappers het na Jakob teruggekom en gesê: Ons het by u broer Esau gekom, en hy trek u alreeds tegemoet en vier honderd man saam met hom.

7 Toe het Jakob baie bevrees en benoud geword, en hy het die mense wat by hom was, sowel as die kleinvee en beeste en kamele in twee laers verdeel;

8 want hy het gedink: As Esau op die een laer afkom en dit verslaan, sal die laer wat oorbly, vryraak.

9 En Jakob het gesê: o God van my vader Abraham en God van my vader Isak, o HERE, wat my beveel het: Gaan terug na jou land en na jou familie, en Ek sal aan jou goed doen --

10 ek is te gering vir al die gunste en al die trou wat U aan u kneg bewys het; want ek het met my staf oor hierdie Jordaan getrek en nou twee laers geword.

11 Red my tog uit die hand van my broer, uit die hand van Esau, want ek is bang vir hom, dat hy sal kom en my doodslaan, die moeder saam met die kinders.

12 U het tog self gesê: Ek sal sekerlik aan jou goed doen en jou nageslag maak soos die sand van die see wat vanweë die menigte nie getel kan word nie.

13 En hy het die nag daar oorgebly en van wat in sy besit was, 'n geskenk geneem vir sy broer Esau:

14 twee honderd bokooie en twintig bokke, twee honderd skaapooie en twintig ramme,

15 dertig kameelkoeie wat in die melk was, met hulle kalfies, veertig koeie en tien bulle, twintig eselinne en tien jong esels;

16 en hy het hulle aan sy dienaars afgegee, elke trop afsonderlik, en aan sy dienaars gesê: Trek voor my uit, en laat 'n plek oop tussen trop en trop.

17 Daarop gee hy aan die eerste een bevel en sê: As my broer Esau jou teëkom en jou vra: Aan wie behoort jy, en waarheen gaan jy, en wie s'n is die goed daar voor jou?

18 dan moet jy antwoord: U dienaar Jakob s'n. Dit is 'n geskenk wat hy aan my heer Esau stuur; en kyk, hy self kom ook agter ons aan.

19 En hy het ook bevel gegee aan die tweede en aan die derde en aan almal wat agter die troppe geloop het, en gesê: Net so moet julle Esau antwoord as julle hom kry --

20 julle moet sê: Kyk, ook u dienaar Jakob kom agter ons aan. Want hy het gedink: Laat ek hom versoen met die geskenk wat voor my uit gaan, en daarna sy aangesig sien -- miskien sal hy my in guns aanneem.

21 So het die geskenk dan voor hom uit gegaan, maar hy self het die nag in die laer gebly.

22 En hy het dieselfde nag opgestaan en sy twee vroue en sy twee slavinne en sy elf kinders geneem en deur die drif van die Jabbok getrek:

23 hy het hulle geneem en hulle deur die rivier laat trek, ook laat deurtrek wat aan hom behoort het.

24 Maar Jakob het alleen agtergebly, en 'n Man het met hom geworstel tot dagbreek.

25 En toe Hy sien dat Hy hom nie kon oorwin nie, slaan Hy hom op sy heupbeen, sodat die heupbeen van Jakob uit lit geraak het in die worsteling met Hom.

26 Toe sê Hy: Laat My gaan, want die dag het gebreek. Maar hy antwoord: Ek sal U nie laat gaan nie tensy dat U my seën.

27 En Hy vra hom: Hoe is jou naam? En hy antwoord: Jakob.

28 Toe sê Hy: Jy sal nie meer Jakob genoem word nie, maar Israel; want jy het geworstel met God en met die mense en het oorwin.

29 Daarop vra Jakob en sê: Maak tog u Naam bekend! En Hy antwoord: Waarom vra jy tog na my Naam? En Hy het hom daar geseën.

30 Toe noem Jakob die plek Pniël; want, het hy gesê, ek het God gesien van aangesig tot aangesig, en tog is my lewe gered.

31 En die son het vir hom opgegaan net toe hy Pnuel verby was; en hy was mank aan sy heup.

32 Daarom eet die kinders van Israel die heupsening, wat aan die heupbeen is, tot vandag toe nie, omdat Hy Jakob op die heupbeen, aan die heupsening, geslaan het.