Liber Genesis, 32

1. Jacob quoque abiit itinere quo cœperat fueruntque ei obviam angeli Dei

1. Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.

2. quos cum vidisset ait castra Dei sunt hæc et appellavit nomen loci illius Manaim id est Castra

2. And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.

3. misit autem et nuntios ante se ad Esau fratrem suum in terram Seir regionis Edom

3. And he sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir to the country of Edom:

4. præcepitque eis dicens sic loquimini domino meo Esau hæc dicit frater tuus Jacob apud Laban peregrinatus sum et fui usque in præsentem diem

4. And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and have been with him until this day.

5. habeo boves et asinos oves et servos atque ancillas mittoque nunc legationem ad dominum meum ut inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo

5. I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight.

6. reversi sunt nuntii ad Jacob dicentes venimus ad Esau fratrem tuum et ecce properat in occursum tibi cum quadringentis viris

6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.

7. timuit Jacob valde et perterritus divisit populum qui secum erat greges quoque et oves et boves et camelos in duas turmas

7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,

8. dicens si venerit Esau ad unam turmam et percusserit eam alia turma quæ reliqua est salvabitur

8. Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.

9. dixitque Jacob Deus patris mei Abraham et Deus patris mei Isaac Domine qui dixisti mihi revertere in terram tuam et in locum nativitatis tuæ et benefaciam tibi

9. And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee,

10. minor sum cunctis miserationibus et veritate quam explesti servo tuo in baculo meo transivi Jordanem istum et nunc cum duabus turmis regredior

10. I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

11. erue me de manu fratris mei de manu Esau quia valde eum timeo ne forte veniens percutiat matrem cum filiis

11. Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.

12. tu locutus es quod bene mihi faceres et dilatares semen meum sicut harenam maris quæ præ multitudine numerari non potest

12. Thou didst say that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for the multitude.

13. cumque dormisset ibi nocte illa separavit de his quæ habebat munera Esau fratri suo

13. And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau.

14. capras ducentas hircos viginti oves ducentas arietes viginti

14. Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

15. camelos fetas cum pullis suis triginta vaccas quadraginta et tauros viginti asinas viginti et pullos earum decem

15. Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals.

16. et misit per manus servorum suorum singulos seorsum greges dixitque pueris suis antecedite me et sit spatium inter gregem et gregem

16. And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.

17. et præcepit priori dicens si obvium habueris Esau fratrem meum et interrogaverit te cujus es et quo vadis et cujus sunt ista quæ sequeris

17. And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee?

18. respondebis servi tui Jacob munera misit domino meo Esau ipse quoque post nos venit

18. Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau: and he cometh after us.

19. similiter mandata dedit secundo ac tertio et cunctis qui sequebantur greges dicens hisdem verbis loquimini ad Esau cum inveneritis eum

19. In like manner he commanded the second and the third, and all that followed with the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him.

20. et addetis ipse quoque servus tuus Jacob iter nostrum insequitur dixit enim placabo illum muneribus quæ præcedunt et postea videbo forsitan propitiabitur mihi

20. And ye shall add: thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us: for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

21. præcesserunt itaque munera ante eum ipse vero mansit nocte illa in Castris

21. So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp.

22. cumque mature surrexisset tulit duas uxores suas et totidem famulas cum undecim filiis et transivit vadum Jaboc

22. And rising early he took his two wives, and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.

23. transductisque omnibus quæ ad se pertinebant

23. And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,

24. remansit solus et ecce vir luctabatur cum eo usque mane

24. He remained alone: and behold a man wrestled with him till morning.

25. qui cum videret quod eum superare non posset tetigit nervum femoris ejus et statim emarcuit

25. And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.

26. dixitque ad eum dimitte me jam enim ascendit aurora respondit non dimittam te nisi benedixeris mihi

26. And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

27. ait ergo quod nomen est tibi respondit Jacob

27. And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.

28. at ille nequaquam inquit Jacob appellabitur nomen tuum sed Israël quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti quanto magis contra homines prævalebis

28. But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

29. interrogavit eum Jacob dic mihi quo appellaris nomine respondit cur quæris nomen meum et benedixit ei in eodem loco

29. Jacob asked him, Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

30. vocavitque Jacob nomen loci illius Phanuhel dicens vidi Deum facie ad faciem et salva facta est anima mea

30. And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

31. ortusque est ei statim sol postquam transgressus est Phanuhel ipse vero claudicabat pede

31. And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.

32. quam ob causam non comedunt filii Israël nervum qui emarcuit in femore Jacob usque in præsentem diem eo quod tetigerit nervum femoris ejus et obstipuerit

32. Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob's thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.