his father, Isaac.
031:054 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his
relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night
in the mountain.
031:055 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and
his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned
to his place.
032:001 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
032:002 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army."
He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
032:003 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother,
to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
032:004 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell
my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says.
I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
032:005 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants.
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
032:006 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your
brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you,
and four hundred men with him."
032:007 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed.
He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks,
and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
032:008 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it,
then the company which is left will escape."
032:009 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my
father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country,
and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'
032:010 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses,
and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant;
for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I
have become two companies.
032:011 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau:
for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers
with the children.
032:012 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed
as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there
are so many.'"
032:013 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had
with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
032:014 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred
ewes and twenty rams,
032:015 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls,
twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
032:016 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd
by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me,
and put a space between herd and herd."
032:017 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you,
and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going?
Whose are these before you?'
032:018 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a