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Genesis · read by Shad Kember
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Genesis 32
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Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.Read from ESV · Jacob's encounter with God
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When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God." So he named that place Mahanaim.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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He instructed them, "You are to say to my master Esau, 'Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him."Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape."Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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But You have said, 'I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.'"Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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then you are to say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.'"Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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You are also to say, 'Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.'" For he thought, "I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me."Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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So Jacob's gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob's hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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"What is your name?" the man asked. "Jacob," he replied.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed."Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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And Jacob requested, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed Jacob there.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, "Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared."Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God
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Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was struck near that tendon.Read from KJV · Jacob's encounter with God