Jacob's covenant with Laban:

CHAP. XXXII. His message and present to Esau.

35 And she said to her father, Let it 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold not displease my lord that I cannot rise up this heap, and behold this pillar, which I before thee; for the custom of women is have cast betwixt me and thee; upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass with Laban: and Jacob answered, and over this heap and this pillar unto me, for said to Laban, What is my trespass? what harm. is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household-stuff? set it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

39 That which was torn of beasts, brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

53 The God of Abraham:, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac.

54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

CHAP. XXXII.

AND Jacob went on his way, and the

angels of God met him.

2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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 Esau; 42 Except the God of my father, the Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have soGod of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had journed with Laban, and stayed there unbeen with me, surely thou hadst sent me til now:

away now empty. God hath seen mine 5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, affliction, and the labour of my hands, and and men-servants, and women-servants: rebuked thee yesternight. and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may

43¶ And Laban answered, and said unto find grace in thy sight. Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, 6 ¶ And the messengers returned to and these children are my children, and Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, seest is mine; and what can I do this day and four hundred men with him. unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne ?

44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels into two bands;

8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

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45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren,! 9 And Jacob said, O God of my Gather stones; and they took stones, and ther Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, made a heap: and they did eat there the LORD which saidst unto me, Return upon the heap. unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and 47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadu-I will deal well with thee: tha: but Jacob called it Galeed:

48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed 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: 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or for I fear him, lest he will come and smite if thou shalt take other wives besides my me, and the mother with the children. daughters; no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand

Jacob wrestles with an angel :

GENESIS. His kind meeting with Esau.

of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

31 And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his

13 And he lodged there that same thigh. night, and took of that which came to his 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat hand a present for Esau his brother; not of the sinew which shrank, which is 14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. CHAP. XXXIII.

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15 Thirty milch camels with their colts,

ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and look

forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses Aed, and behold, Esau came, and with

and ten foals.

16 And he delivered them into the hand of him four hundred men. And he divided his servants, every drove by themselves; the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and said unto his servants, Pass over before and unto the two handmaids. me, and puta space betwixt drove and drove. 2 And he put the handmaids and their 17 And he commanded the foremost, children foremost, and Leah and her chilsaying, When Esau my brother meeteth dren after, and Rachel and Joseph hinderthee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art most.

thou? and whither goest thou? and whose 3 And he passed over before them, and are these before thee? bowed himself to the ground seven times, 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy until he came near to his brother. servant Jacob's: it is a present sent unto 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and emmy lord Esau: and behold also he is be-braced him, and fell on his neck, and kisshind us. ed him and they wept. 19 And so commanded he the second, 5. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the and the third, and all that followed the women and the children, and said, Whoare droves, saying, On this manner shall ye those with thee? And he said, The children speak unto Esau, when ye find him. which God hath graciously given thy servant.

6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed

20 And say ye moreover, Behold, 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 themselves. his face; peradventure he will acceptofme. 21 So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night in the com

7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

pany. 22 And he rose up that night, and took 8 And he said, Whatmeanest thou by all his two wives, and his two women-ser- this drove which I met? And he said, vants, and his eleven sons, and passed These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. over the ford Jabbok. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

24 T And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him, until the breaking of the day.

10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had 25 And when he saw that he prevailed seen the face of God, and thou wast pleasnot against him, he touched the hollow of ed with me.

his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that. was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. is brought to thee; because God hath 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day dealt graciously with me, and because I breaketh And he said, I will not let thee have enough: and he urged him, and he go, except thou bless me. took it.

27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

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28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as 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 God face to lace, and my life is preserved.

12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me, and if men should over-drive them one day, all the flock will die.

14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure; until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

15 And Esau said, Let me now leave