Liber Genesis, 32

1. Laban vero de nocte consur gens osculatus est filios et fi lias suas et benedixit illis reversusque est in locum suum.

1. Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him;

2. Iacob quoque abiit itinere, quo coeperat, fueruntque ei obviam angeli Dei.

2. and when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's army!" So he called the name of that place Mahana'im.

3. Quos cum vidisset, ait: “Castra Dei sunt haec”; et appellavit nomen loci illius Mahanaim (id est Castra).

3. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Se'ir, the country of Edom,

4. Misit autem nuntios ante se ad Esau fratrem suum in terram Seir, in regionem Edom.

4. instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, `I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;

5. Praecepitque eis dicens: “Sic loquimini domino meo Esau: Haec dicit servus tuus Iacob: Apud Laban peregrinatus sum et fui usque in praesentem diem.

5. and I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'"

6. Habeo boves et asinos, oves et servos atque ancillas; mittoque nunc legationem ad dominum meum, ut inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo”.

6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

7. Reversique sunt nuntii ad Iacob dicentes: “Venimus ad Esau fratrem tuum, et ecce properat in occursum tibi cum quadringentis viris”.

7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,

8. Timuit Iacob valde et perterritus divisit populum, qui secum erat, greges quoque et oves et boves et camelos in duas turmas

8. thinking, "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company which is left will escape."

9. dicens: “Si venerit Esau ad unam turmam et percusserit eam, alia turma, quae reliqua est, salvabitur”.

9. And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who didst say to me, `Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,'

10. Dixitque Iacob: “Deus patris mei Abraham et Deus patris mei Isaac, Domine, qui dixisti mihi: "Revertere in terram tuam et in locum nativitatis tuae, et benefaciam tibi",

10. I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

11. minor sum cunctis miserationibus et cuncta veritate, quam explesti servo tuo. In baculo meo transivi Iordanem istum et nunc cum duabus turmis regredior.

11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.

12. Erue me de manu fratris mei, de manu Esau, quia valde eum timeo; ne forte veniens percutiat matrem cum filiis.

12. But thou didst say, `I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"

13. Tu locutus es quod bene mihi faceres et dilatares semen meum sicut arenam maris, quae prae multitudine numerari non potest”.

13. So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,

14. Mansit ibi nocte illa et sumpsit de his, quae habebat, munera Esau fratri suo:

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

15. capras ducentas, hircos viginti, oves ducentas et arietes viginti,

15. thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses.

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

16. These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove."

17. Et misit per manus servorum suorum singulos seorsum greges dixitque pueris suis: “Antecedite me, et sit spatium inter gregem et gregem”.

17. He instructed the foremost, "When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, `To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before you?'

18. Et praecepit priori dicens: “Si obvium habueris Esau fratrem meum, et interrogaverit te: "Cuius es?" et "Quo vadis?" et "Cuius sunt ista, quae sequeris?",

18. then you shall say, `They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.'"

19. respondebis: Servi tui Iacob; munera misit domino meo Esau. Ipse quoque post nos venit”.

19. He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,

20. Similiter mandata dedit secundo ac tertio et cunctis, qui sequebantur greges, dicens: “Iisdem verbis loquimini ad Esau, cum inveneritis eum,

20. and you shall say, `Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me."

21. et addetis: Ipse quoque servus tuus Iacob iter nostrum insequitur. Dixit enim: Placabo illum muneribus, quae praecedunt, et postea videbo faciem eius: forsitan propitiabitur mihi”.

21. So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

22. Praecesserunt itaque munera ante eum, ipse vero mansit nocte illa in castris.

22. The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

23. Cumque nocte surrexisset, tulit duas uxores suas et totidem famulas cum undecim filiis et transivit vadum Iaboc;

23. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.

24. sumptis ergo traductisque illis et omnibus, quae ad se pertinebant, per torrentem,

24. And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

25. mansit solus. Et ecce vir luctabatur cum eo usque mane.

25. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.

26. Qui cum videret quod eum superare non posset, tetigit acetabulum femoris eius, et statim luxatum est acetabulum femoris Iacob, cum luctaretur cum illo.

26. Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me."

27. Dixitque: “Dimitte me, iam enim ascendit aurora”. Respondit: “Non dimittam te, nisi benedixeris mihi”.

27. And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."

28. Ait ad eum: “Quod nomen est tibi?”. Respondit: “Iacob”.

28. Then he said, "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

29. At ille: “Nequaquam, inquit, Iacob amplius appellabitur nomen tuum, sed Israel: quoniam certasti cum Deo et cum hominibus et praevaluisti!”.

29. Then Jacob asked him, "Tell me, I pray, your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.

30. Interrogavit eum Iacob: “Dic mihi, quo appellaris nomine?”. Respondit: “Cur quaeris nomen meum?”. Et benedixit ei in eodem loco.

30. So Jacob called the name of the place Peni'el, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."

31. Vocavitque Iacob nomen loci illius Phanuel dicens: “Vidi Deum facie ad faciem, et salva facta est anima mea”.

31. The sun rose upon him as he passed Penu'el, limping because of his thigh.

32. Ortusque est ei sol, cum transgrederetur Phanuel; ipse vero claudicabat propter femur.

32. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew of the hip.

33. Quam ob causam non comedunt filii Israel nervum, qui est in femore, usque in praesentem diem, eo quod tetigerit nervum femoris Iacob.

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