Genesis 32:9-23

⁹ And then Jacob prayed, "God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, God who told me, 'Go back to your parents' homeland and I'll treat you well.' ¹⁰ I don't deserve all the love and loyalty you've shown me. When I left here and crossed the Jordan I only had the clothes on my back, and now look at me - two camps! ¹¹ Save me, please, from the violence of my brother, my angry brother! I'm afraid he'll come and attack us all, me, the mothers and the children. ¹² You yourself said, 'I will treat you well; I'll make your descendants like the sands of the sea, far too many to count.'"

¹³ He slept the night there. Then he prepared a present for his brother Esau from his possessions: ¹⁴ two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ¹⁵ thirty camels with their nursing young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. ¹⁶ He put a servant in charge of each herd and said, "Go ahead of me and keep a healthy space between each herd." ¹⁷ Then he instructed the first one out: "When my brother Esau comes close and asks, 'Who is your master? Where are you going? Who owns these?' ¹⁸ - answer him like this, 'Your servant Jacob. They are a gift to my master Esau. He's on his way.'" ¹⁹ He gave the same instructions to the second servant and to the third - to each in turn as they set out with their herds: ²⁰ "Say 'Your servant Jacob is on his way behind us.'" He thought, "I will soften him up with the succession of gifts. Then when he sees me face-to-face, maybe he'll be glad to welcome me." ²¹ So his gifts went before him while he settled down for the night in the camp.

Jacob Wrestles at Peniel

²² But during the night he got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. ²³ He got them safely across the brook along with all his possessions.