Psalm 102^[a]

A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord.

Jacob Wrestles With God

²² That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons^(A) and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.^{(B) 23} After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.^{(C) 24} So Jacob was left alone,^(D) and a man^(E) wrestled with him till daybreak. ²⁵ When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip^(F) so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. ²⁶ Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”^(G)

²⁷ The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,”^(H) he answered.

²⁸ Then the man said, “Your name^(I) will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,^[a](J) because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”^(K)

²⁹ Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”^(L)

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?”^(M) Then he blessed^(N) him there.

³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel,^[b] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face,^(O) and yet my life was spared.”

³¹ The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,^[c](P) and he was limping because of his hip. ³² Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip,^(Q) because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

Jacob Meets Esau

33 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men;^(R) so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.^{(S) 2} He put the female servants and their children^(T) in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph^(U) in the rear. ³ He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground^(V) seven times^(W) as he approached his brother.

⁴ But Esau^(X) ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him.^(Y) And they wept.^{(Z) 5} Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.

Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.^(AA)”

⁶ Then the female servants and their children^(AB) approached and bowed down.^{(AC) 7} Next, Leah and her children^(AD) came and bowed down.^(AE) Last of all came Joseph and Rachel,^(AF) and they too bowed down.

⁸ Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?”^(AG)

“To find favor in your eyes, my lord,”^(AH) he said.

⁹ But Esau said, “I already have plenty,^(AI) my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”

¹⁰ “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes,^(AJ) accept this gift^(AK) from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God,^(AL) now that you have received me favorably.^{(AM) 11} Please accept the present^(AN) that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me^(AO) and I have all I need.”^(AP) And because Jacob insisted,^(AQ) Esau accepted it.

¹² Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”

¹³ But Jacob said to him, “My lord^(AR) knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young.^(AS) If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. ¹⁴ So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds^(AT) before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.^(AU)”

¹⁵ Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”

“But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”^(AV)

¹⁶ So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.^{(AW) 17} Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth,^(AX) where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.^[d]

¹⁸ After Jacob came from Paddan Aram,^[e](AY) he arrived safely at the city of Shechem^(AZ) in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.

Jacob Wrestles With God

²² That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons^(A) and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.^{(B) 23} After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.^{(C) 24} So Jacob was left alone,^(D) and a man^(E) wrestled with him till daybreak. ²⁵ When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip^(F) so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. ²⁶ Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”^(G)

²⁷ The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,”^(H) he answered.

²⁸ Then the man said, “Your name^(I) will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,^[a](J) because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”^(K)

²⁹ Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”^(L)

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?”^(M) Then he blessed^(N) him there.

³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel,^[b] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face,^(O) and yet my life was spared.”

³¹ The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,^[c](P) and he was limping because of his hip. ³² Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip,^(Q) because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

Jacob Meets Esau

33 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men;^(R) so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.^{(S) 2} He put the female servants and their children^(T) in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph^(U) in the rear. ³ He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground^(V) seven times^(W) as he approached his brother.

⁴ But Esau^(X) ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him.^(Y) And they wept.^{(Z) 5} Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.

Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.^(AA)”

⁶ Then the female servants and their children^(AB) approached and bowed down.^{(AC) 7} Next, Leah and her children^(AD) came and bowed down.^(AE) Last of all came Joseph and Rachel,^(AF) and they too bowed down.

⁸ Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?”^(AG)

“To find favor in your eyes, my lord,”^(AH) he said.

⁹ But Esau said, “I already have plenty,^(AI) my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”

¹⁰ “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes,^(AJ) accept this gift^(AK) from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God,^(AL) now that you have received me favorably.^{(AM) 11} Please accept the present^(AN) that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me^(AO) and I have all I need.”^(AP) And because Jacob insisted,^(AQ) Esau accepted it.

¹² Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”

¹³ But Jacob said to him, “My lord^(AR) knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young.^(AS) If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. ¹⁴ So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds^(AT) before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.^(AU)”

¹⁵ Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”

“But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”^(AV)

¹⁶ So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.^{(AW) 17} Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth,^(AX) where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.^[d]

¹⁸ After Jacob came from Paddan Aram,^[e](AY) he arrived safely at the city of Shechem^(AZ) in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.

³¹ Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,^{(A) 32} but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

³³ “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”^(B)

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law,^(C) ‘I have said you are “gods”’^[a]?^{(D) 35} If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God^(E) came—and Scripture cannot be set aside^(F)— ³⁶ what about the one whom the Father set apart^(G) as his very own^(H) and sent into the world?^(I) Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?^{(J) 37} Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.^{(K) 38} But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”^{(L) 39} Again they tried to seize him,^(M) but he escaped their grasp.^(N)

⁴⁰ Then Jesus went back across the Jordan^(O) to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, ⁴¹ and many people came to him. They said, “Though John never performed a sign,^(P) all that John said about this man was true.”^{(Q) 42} And in that place many believed in Jesus.^(R)