AND Ya`aqov went on his way, and the angels of Elohiym met him.
And when Ya`aqov saw them, he said, This is Elohiym's host: and he called the name of that place Machanayim.
And Ya`aqov sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Se`iyr, the country of Edom.
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my adoniy Esau; Your servant Ya`aqov says thus, I have sojourned with Lavan, and stayed there until now:
And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and women servants: and I have sent to tell my adoniy, that I may find grace in your sight.
And the messengers returned to El-Ya`aqov, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and also he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.
Then Ya`aqov was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two bands;
And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
And Ya`aqov said, O Elohai of my father Avraham, and Elohai of my father Yitschaq, Yahuah which said unto me, Return unto your country, and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you:
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have showed unto your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Yardan; and now I am become two bands.
Deliver me, I pray you, 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.
And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
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.
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, saying, Whose are you? and where go you? and whose are these before you?
Then you shall say, They be your servant Ya`aqov's; it is a present sent unto my adoniy Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
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.
And say ye moreover, Behold, your servant Ya`aqov is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perchance he will accept of me.
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
And he rose up that night, and took his two women, and his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over את the ford Yabboq.
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Ya`aqov was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Ya`aqov's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me.
And he said unto him, What is your name? And he said, Ya`aqov.
And he said, Your name shall be called no more Ya`aqov, but Yashar'el: for as a prince have you power with Elohiym and with men, and have prevailed.
And Ya`aqov asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray you, your name. And he said, Wherefore is it that you do ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Ya`aqov called the name of the place Penu'el: for I have seen Elohiym face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penu'el the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Therefore the children of Yashar'el eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Ya`aqov's thigh in the sinew that shrank.