Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau

321 Now as Jacob went on his way , the angels of God met him. 2 Jacob said when he saw them, "This is God's camp ." So he named e that place Mahanaim .

3 Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir , the country of Edom . 4 He also commanded them saying , "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau : 'Thus says your servant Jacob , "I have sojourned with Laban , and stayed until now ; 5 I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants e ; and 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 , and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him." 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed ; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels , into two companies ; 8 for he said , "If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape ."

9 Jacob said , "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac , O Lord , who said to me, ' Return to your country and to your relatives , and I will prosper you,' 10 I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant ; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan , and now I have become two companies . 11 " Deliver me, I pray , from the hand of my brother , from the hand of Esau ; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children . 12 "For You said , ' I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea , which is too great to be numbered .' "

13 So he spent the night there . Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau : 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats , two hundred ewes and twenty rams , 15 thirty milking camels and their colts , forty cows and ten bulls , twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys . 16 He delivered them into the hand of his servants , every drove by itself , and said to his servants , "Pass on before me, and put a space between droves ." 17 He commanded the one in front , saying , "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying , 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going , and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?' 18 then you shall say , 'These belong to your servant Jacob ; it is a present sent to my lord Esau . And behold , he also is behind us.' " 19 Then he commanded also the second and the third , and all those who followed e the droves , saying , "After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him; 20 and you shall say , 'Behold , your servant Jacob also is behind us.' " For he said , "I will appease e him with the present that goes before me. Then afterward e I will see his face ; perhaps he will accept e me." 21 So the present passed on before e him, while he himself spent that night in the camp .

Jacob Wrestles at Peniel

22 Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven e children , and crossed the ford of the Jabbok . 23 He took them and sent them across the stream . And he sent across whatever he had.

24 Then Jacob was left alone , and a man wrestled with him until daybreak . 25 When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh ; so the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said , "Let me go , for the dawn is breaking ." But he said , " I will not let you go unless e you bless me." 27 So he said to him, "What is your name ?" And he said , "Jacob ." 28 He said , "Your name shall no longer be Jacob , but Israel ; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed ." 29 Then Jacob asked him and said , "Please tell me your name ." But he said , "Why is it that you ask my name ?" And he blessed him there . 30 So Jacob named e the place Peniel , for he said, " I have seen God face to face , yet my life has been preserved ." 31 Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel , and he was limping on his thigh . 32 Therefore e , to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh , because he touched the socket of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip .

Man's Disobedience

31 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made . And he said to the woman , "Indeed e , has God said , 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden '?" 2 The woman said to the serpent , " From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat ; 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden , God has said , 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die .' " 4 The serpent said to the woman , "You surely will not die ! 5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened , and you will be like God , knowing good and evil ."

6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was a delight to the eyes , and that the tree was desirable to make one wise , she took from its fruit and ate ; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate . 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened , and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings . 8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day , and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden .

9 Then the Lord God called to the man , and said to him, " Where are you?" 10 He said , " I heard the sound of You in the garden , and I was afraid because I was naked ; so I hid myself."

11 And He said , "Who told you that you were naked ? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat ?" 12 The man said , "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree , and I ate ." 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman , "What is this you have done ?" And the woman said , " The serpent deceived me, and I ate ."

14 The Lord God said to the serpent , " Because you have done this , Cursed are you more than all cattle , And more than every beast of the field ; On your belly you will go , And dust you will eat All the days of your life ; 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman , And between your seed and her seed ; He shall bruise you on the head , And you shall bruise him on the heel ."

16 To the woman He said , "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth , In pain you will bring forth children ; Yet your desire will be for your husband , And he will rule over you."

17 Then to Adam He said , "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife , and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying , 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life . 18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field ; 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread , Till you return to the ground , Because from it you were taken ; For you are dust , And to dust you shall return ."

20 Now the man called his wife's name Eve , because she was the mother of all the living .

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife , and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said , "Behold , the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil ; and now , he might stretch out his hand , and take also from the tree of life , and eat , and live forever "- 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden , to cultivate the ground from which he was taken . 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life .