{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Genesis",
 "chapter": 32,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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;"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "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, and the mother with the children."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?"
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "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 his face; peradventure he will accept of me."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank."
  }
 ],
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}