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These were his directions, You are to tell my lord Esau this, from his brother Jacob: I have been living abroad, on a visit to Laban, and am but just returned. (Genesis 32, 4)
At this, Jacob was overcome with terror, and in his extremity he divided up his followers, the flocks of sheep, too, and the cattle, and the camels, into two companies; (Genesis 32, 7)
And now Jacob said, O God of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, thou, Lord, who hast bidden me return to my own country, the land of my birth, and hast offered to bless me, (Genesis 32, 9)
thy answer is to be, They belong to thy servant Jacob, who is sending them as a present to my lord Esau; and he himself follows behind us. (Genesis 32, 18)
and be sure to add, Thy servant Jacob follows on behind us. I will not see him, he thought, until I have disarmed his anger with the gifts I have sent before me; then perhaps he will be well disposed towards me!✻ (Genesis 32, 20)
At last, finding that he could not get the better of Jacob, he touched the sinew of his thigh, which all at once withered; (Genesis 32, 25)
then he said, Let me go, the dawn is up. But Jacob answered, I will not let thee go until thou givest me thy blessing. (Genesis 32, 26)
What is thy name? asked the other, and when he heard that it was Jacob, (Genesis 32, 27)
Jacob, he said, is no name for thee, thou shalt be called Israel, one that prevails with God.✻ If thou hast held thy own with God, how wilt thou prevail over men! (Genesis 32, 28)
Tell me, asked Jacob, what is thy own name? Why wouldst thou know my name? he answered, and gave him there and then, his blessing. (Genesis 32, 29)
So Jacob called the place Phanuel, the Face of God; I have seen God face to face, he said, and my life was not forfeit. (Genesis 32, 30)
that is why the race of Israel, to this day, will not eat the sinew of the thigh, in which Jacob’s strength failed him, the sinew of his thigh that withered when it was touched. (Genesis 32, 32)
