Genesis 32
New Living Translation
32 [a]As Jacob started on his way again, angels of God came to meet him. 2 When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is God’s camp!” So he named the place Mahanaim.[b]
Jacob Sends Gifts to Esau
3 Then Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother, Esau, who was living in the region of Seir in the land of Edom. 4 He told them, “Give this message to my master Esau: ‘Humble greetings from your servant Jacob. Until now I have been living with Uncle Laban, 5 and now I own cattle, donkeys, flocks of sheep and goats, and many servants, both men and women. I have sent these messengers to inform my lord of my coming, hoping that you will be friendly to me.’”
6 After delivering the message, the messengers returned to Jacob and reported, “We met your brother, Esau, and he is already on his way to meet you—with an army of 400 men!” 7 Jacob was terrified at the news. He divided his household, along with the flocks and herds and camels, into two groups. 8 He thought, “If Esau meets one group and attacks it, perhaps the other group can escape.”
9 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my grandfather Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac—O Lord, you told me, ‘Return to your own land and to your relatives.’ And you promised me, ‘I will treat you kindly.’ 10 I am not worthy of all the unfailing love and faithfulness you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home and crossed the Jordan River, I owned nothing except a walking stick. Now my household fills two large camps! 11 O Lord, please rescue me from the hand of my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to attack me, along with my wives and children. 12 But you promised me, ‘I will surely treat you kindly, and I will multiply your descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore—too many to count.’”
13 Jacob stayed where he was for the night. Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau: 14 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, 15 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys. 16 He divided these animals into herds and assigned each to different servants. Then he told his servants, “Go ahead of me with the animals, but keep some distance between the herds.”
17 He gave these instructions to the men leading the first group: “When my brother, Esau, meets you, he will ask, ‘Whose servants are you? Where are you going? Who owns these animals?’ 18 You must reply, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob, but they are a gift for his master Esau. Look, he is coming right behind us.’”
19 Jacob gave the same instructions to the second and third herdsmen and to all who followed behind the herds: “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. 20 And be sure to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’”
Jacob thought, “I will try to appease him by sending gifts ahead of me. When I see him in person, perhaps he will be friendly to me.” 21 So the gifts were sent on ahead, while Jacob himself spent that night in the camp.
Jacob Wrestles with God
22 During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two servant wives, and his eleven sons and crossed the Jabbok River with them. 23 After taking them to the other side, he sent over all his possessions.
24 This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. 25 When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!”
But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 “What is your name?” the man asked.
He replied, “Jacob.”
28 “Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. “From now on you will be called Israel,[c] because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”
29 “Please tell me your name,” Jacob said.
“Why do you want to know my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
30 Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.” 31 The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel,[d] and he was limping because of the injury to his hip. 32 (Even today the people of Israel don’t eat the tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob’s hip.)
Gênesis 32
Almeida Revista e Corrigida 2009
32 E foi também Jacó o seu caminho, e encontraram-no os anjos de Deus. 2 E Jacó disse, quando os viu: Este é o exército de Deus. E chamou o nome daquele lugar Maanaim.
Jacó envia mensageiros a Esaú
3 E enviou Jacó mensageiros diante da sua face a Esaú, seu irmão, à terra de Seir, território de Edom. 4 E ordenou-lhes, dizendo: Assim direis a meu senhor Esaú: Assim diz Jacó, teu servo: Como peregrino morei com Labão e me detive lá até agora. 5 E tenho bois, e jumentos, e ovelhas, e servos, e servas; e enviei para o anunciar a meu senhor, para que ache graça a teus olhos.
6 E os mensageiros tornaram a Jacó, dizendo: Fomos a teu irmão Esaú; e também ele vem a encontrar-te, e quatrocentos varões com ele. 7 Então, Jacó temeu muito e angustiou-se; e repartiu em dois bandos o povo que com ele estava, e as ovelhas, e as vacas, e os camelos. 8 Porque dizia: Se Esaú vier a um bando e o ferir, o outro bando escapará.
9 Disse mais Jacó: Deus de meu pai Abraão e Deus de meu pai Isaque, ó Senhor, que me disseste: Torna à tua terra e à tua parentela, e far-te-ei bem; 10 menor sou eu que todas as beneficências e que toda a fidelidade que tiveste com teu servo; porque com meu cajado passei este Jordão e, agora, me tornei em dois bandos. 11 Livra-me, peço-te, da mão de meu irmão, da mão de Esaú, porque o temo, para que porventura não venha e me fira e a mãe com os filhos. 12 E tu o disseste: Certamente te farei bem e farei a tua semente como a areia do mar, que, pela multidão, não se pode contar.
13 E passou ali aquela noite; e tomou, do que lhe veio à sua mão, um presente para seu irmão Esaú: 14 duzentas cabras e vinte bodes; duzentas ovelhas e vinte carneiros; 15 trinta camelas de leite com suas crias, quarenta vacas e dez novilhos; vinte jumentas e dez jumentinhos. 16 E deu-o na mão dos seus servos, cada rebanho à parte, e disse a seus servos: Passai adiante da minha face e ponde espaço entre rebanho e rebanho. 17 E ordenou ao primeiro, dizendo: Quando Esaú, meu irmão, te encontrar e te perguntar, dizendo: De quem és, para onde vais, de quem são estes diante da tua face? 18 Então, dirás: São de teu servo Jacó, presente que envia a meu senhor, a Esaú; e eis que ele mesmo vem também atrás de nós. 19 E ordenou também ao segundo, e ao terceiro, e a todos os que vinham atrás dos rebanhos, dizendo: Conforme esta mesma palavra, falareis a Esaú, quando o achardes. 20 E direis também: Eis que o teu servo Jacó vem atrás de nós. Porque dizia: Eu o aplacarei com o presente que vai diante de mim e, depois, verei a sua face; porventura aceitará a minha face. 21 Assim, passou o presente diante da sua face; ele, porém, passou aquela noite no arraial.
Jacó passa o vau de Jaboque e luta com um anjo
22 E levantou-se aquela mesma noite, e tomou as suas duas mulheres, e as suas duas servas, e os seus onze filhos, e passou o vau de Jaboque. 23 E tomou-os e fê-los passar o ribeiro; e fez passar tudo o que tinha. 24 Jacó, porém, ficou só; e lutou com ele um varão, até que a alva subia. 25 E, vendo que não prevalecia contra ele, tocou a juntura de sua coxa; e se deslocou a juntura da coxa de Jacó, lutando com ele. 26 E disse: Deixa-me ir, porque já a alva subiu. Porém ele disse: Não te deixarei ir, se me não abençoares. 27 E disse-lhe: Qual é o teu nome? E ele disse: Jacó. 28 Então, disse: Não se chamará mais o teu nome Jacó, mas Israel, pois, como príncipe, lutaste com Deus e com os homens e prevaleceste. 29 E Jacó lhe perguntou e disse: Dá-me, peço-te, a saber o teu nome. E disse: Por que perguntas pelo meu nome? E abençoou-o ali. 30 E chamou Jacó o nome daquele lugar Peniel, porque dizia: Tenho visto a Deus face a face, e a minha alma foi salva. 31 E saiu-lhe o sol, quando passou a Peniel; e manquejava da sua coxa. 32 Por isso, os filhos de Israel não comem o nervo encolhido, que está sobre a juntura da coxa, até o dia de hoje, porquanto ele tocara a juntura da coxa de Jacó no nervo encolhido.
Genesis 32
New King James Version
Esau Comes to Meet Jacob
32 So Jacob went on his way, and (A)the angels of God met him. 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s (B)camp.” And he called the name of that place [a]Mahanaim.
3 Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother (C)in the land of Seir, (D)the [b]country of Edom. 4 And he commanded them, saying, (E)“Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now. 5 (F)I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that (G)I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”
6 Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and (H)he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” 7 So Jacob was greatly afraid and (I)distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies. 8 And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and [c]attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”
9 (J)Then Jacob said, (K)“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord (L)who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the (M)mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with (N)my staff, and now I have become two companies. 11 (O)Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and [d]attack me and (P)the mother with the children. 12 For (Q)You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the (R)sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”
13 So he lodged there that same night, and took what [e]came to his hand as (S)a present for Esau his brother: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 16 Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.” 17 And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?’ 18 then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.’ ” 19 So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, “In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him; 20 and also say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will (T)appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.” 21 So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.
Wrestling with God
22 And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, (U)and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. 23 He took them, sent them [f]over the brook, and sent over what he had. 24 Then Jacob was left alone; and (V)a Man wrestled with him until the [g]breaking of day. 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He [h]touched the socket of his hip; and (W)the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 26 And (X)He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
But he said, (Y)“I will not let You go unless You bless me!”
27 So He said to him, “What is your name?”
He said, “Jacob.”
28 And He said, (Z)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but [i]Israel; for you have (AA)struggled with God and (AB)with men, and have prevailed.”
29 Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.”
And He said, (AC)“Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He (AD)blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the name of the place [j]Peniel: “For (AE)I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 31 Just as he crossed over [k]Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He [l]touched the socket of Jacob’s hip in the muscle that shrank.
Footnotes
- Genesis 32:2 Lit. Double Camp
- Genesis 32:3 Lit. field
- Genesis 32:8 Lit. strikes
- Genesis 32:11 Lit. strike
- Genesis 32:13 he had received
- Genesis 32:23 across
- Genesis 32:24 dawn
- Genesis 32:25 struck
- Genesis 32:28 Lit. Prince with God
- Genesis 32:30 Lit. Face of God
- Genesis 32:31 Lit. Face of God; same as Peniel, v. 30
- Genesis 32:32 struck
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