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the Angels of God met him. 2 And when Iaakob the seconde and the thirde, and all that followed
saw them, he said, This is Gods hoste, and called the droues, saying, After this maner, ye shall
the name of the same place Mahanaim. 3 Then speake vnto Esau, when ye finde him. 20 And ye
Iaakob sent messengers before him to Esau his shall say moreouer, Beholde, thy seruant Iaakob
brother, vnto the land of Seir into the countrey commeth after vs (for he thought, I will appease
of Edom: 4 To whom he gaue commandement, his wrath with the present that goeth before me,
saying, Thus shall ye speake to my lorde Esau: and afterwarde I will see his face: it may be that
thy seruant Iaakob sayeth thus, I haue bene a he will accept me.) 21 So went the present before
stranger with Laban, and taried vnto this time. him: but he taried that night with the companie.
5 I haue beeues also and Asses, sheepe, and men 22 And he rose vp the same night, and tooke his
seruantes, and women seruantes, and haue sent two wiues, and his two maides, and his eleuen
to shew my lord, that I may find grace in thy children, and went ouer the forde Iabbok. 23 And
sight. So ye messengers came againe to Iaakob, he tooke them, and sent them ouer the riuer,
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saying, We came vnto thy brother Esau, and and sent ouer that he had. 24 Now when Iaakob
hee also commeth against thee and foure hun- was left him selfe alone, there wrestled a man
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with him vnto the breaking of the day.
dreth men with him. 7 Then Iaakob was greatly he sawe that he could not preuaile against him:
afraid, and was sore troubled, and deuided the therefore he touched the holowe of his thigh, and
people that was with him, and the sheepe, and
the beeues, and the camels into two companies. the holowe of Iaakobs thigh was loosed, as he
8 For he said, If Esau come to ye one company wrestled with him. 26 And he saide, Let me goe,
and smite it, the other companie shall escape. for the morning appeareth. Who answered, I will
9 Moreouer Iaakob said, O God of my father Abra- not let thee go except thou blesse me. 27 Then
ham, and God of my father Izhak: Lord, which said he vnto him, What is thy name? And he said,
saydest vnto me, Returne vnto thy coutrey and Iaakob. 28 Then said he, Thy name shalbe called
to thy kinred, and I will do thee good, 10 I am not Iaakob no more, but Israel: because thou hast
had power with God, thou shalt also preuaile with
worthy of the least of all the mercies, and al the men. 29 Then Iaakob demaded, saying, Tell me, I
trueth, which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant: pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore now
for with my staffe came I ouer this Iorden, and doest thou aske my name? and he blessed him
now haue I gotte two bads. 11 I pray thee, Deliuer there 30 And Iaakob called the name of the place,
me from the hande of my brother, from the Peniel: for, saide he, I haue seene God face to face,
hande of Esau: for I feare him, least he will come and my life is preserued. 31 And the sunne rose vp
and smite me, and the mother vpon the children. to him as he passed Peniel, and he halted vpon
12 For thou saydest; I will surely doe thee good, his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eate
and make thy seede as the sande of the sea, which not of the sinewe that shranke in the hollowe of
can not be nombred for multitude. 13 And he the thigh, vnto this day: because he touched the
taryed there the same night, and tooke of that sinew that shranke in the holow of Iaakobs thigh.
whichcametohad, apresentforEsauhisbrother:
14 Two hundreth shee goates and twenty hee
goates, two hundreth ewes and twentie rammes: 33
15 Thirtie mylche camels with their coltes, fourtie 1 And as Iaakob lift vp his eyes, and looked,
kine, and ten bullockes, twentie she asses and ten behold, Esau came, and with him foure hundreth
foles. 16 So he deliuered them into the hande men: and he deuided the children to Leah, and
of his seruants, euery droue by themselues, and to Rahel, and to the two maides. 2 And he put
saide vnto his seruants, Passe before me, and the maides, and their children formost, and Leah,
put a space betweene droue and droue. 17 And and her children after, and Rahel, and Ioseph
he commanded the formost, saying, If Esau my hindermost. So he went before them and bowed
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brother meete thee, and aske thee, saying, Whose him selfe to the ground seuen times, vntill he
seruant art thou? And whither goest thou? And came neere to his brother. 4 Then Esau ranne
whose are these before thee? 18 Then thou shalt to meete him, and embraced him, and fell on
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say, They be thy seruant Iaakobs: it is a present his necke, and kissed him, and they wept. And
sent vnto my lord Esau: and beholde, he him selfe he lift vp his eyes, and sawe the women, and
also is behinde vs. 19 So likewise commanded he the children, and saide, Who are these with
thee? And he answered, They are ye childre