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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 23, 23 January 2025   
      
   1) Genesis 32, Genesis 33, Genesis 34   
      
   GENESIS 32   
      
   Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau   
      
   1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.   
   2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's camp." So he called the name   
    of that place Mahanaim.   
   3 Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir,   
    the country of Edom.   
    4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you must   
    say to my lord Esau: This is what your servant Jacob says, 'I have sojourned   
   with Laban and stayed there until now.   
   5 I have oxen and donkeys, flocks,   
   and male servants and female servants, and I am sending this message   
   to tell my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.' "   
   6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We went to your brother Esau.   
    He is coming to meet you, and what is more, four hundred men are with him."   
   7 Then Jacob was very afraid and distressed, and he divided the people   
   that were with him, along with the flocks and herds and the camels,   
   nto two groups.   
   8 He said, "If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it,   
   then the other camp which is left may escape."   
   9 And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God   
   of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country   
   and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,'   
   10 I am not worthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness   
    which You have shown to Your servant. For with my staff I crossed over this   
    Jordan, and now I have become two encampments.   
   11 Deliver me, I pray,   
   from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him,   
   that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.   
   12 You said, 'I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand   
   of the sea, which is too many to be counted.' "   
   13 So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him   
   a gift for his brother Esau:   
   14 two hundred female goats and twenty male   
    goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,   
    15 thirty female camels   
   with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys   
   and ten male donkeys.   
   16 He gave them to his servants, every drove by itself,   
   and said to his servants, "Pass over before me,   
   and keep a distance between each drove."   
   17 He commanded the one leading, saying, "When my brother Esau meets you   
    and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going,   
   and to whom do these animals belong?'   
   18 then you are to say,   
   'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau,   
   and he is also behind us.' "   
   19 Likewise he commanded the second and the third and all that   
    followed the droves, saying, "This is what you are to say to Esau   
   when you find him.   
   20 Moreover, say, 'Your servant Jacob is behind us.' "   
    For he said, "I will appease him with the gift that goes before me,   
   and then I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."   
   21 So the gift went before him, but he lodged that night in the encampment.   
      
   [1] And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.   
   [2] And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the   
   name of that place Mahanaim.   
   [3] And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land   
   of Seir, the country of Edom.   
   [4] And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau;   
   Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there   
   until now:   
   [5] And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants:   
   and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.   
   [6] And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother   
   Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.   
   [7] Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people   
   that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two   
   bands;   
   [8] And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other   
   company which is left shall escape.   
   [9] And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac,   
   the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred,   
   and I will deal well with thee:   
   [10] I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth,   
   which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over   
   this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.   
   [11] Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of   
   Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with   
   the children.   
   [12] And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the   
   sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.   
   [13] And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his   
   hand a present for Esau his brother;   
   [14] Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and   
   twenty rams,   
   [15] Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty   
   she asses, and ten foals.   
   [16] And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by   
   themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space   
   betwixt drove and drove.   
   [17] And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth   
   thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and   
   whose are these before thee?   
   [18] Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent   
   unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.   
   [19] And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed   
   the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find   
   him.   
   [20] And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he   
   said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and   
   afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.   
   [21] So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in   
   the company.   
      
   Jacob Wrestles With God   
      
   22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants,   
   and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.   
   23 He took them  and sent them across the stream along with all that he had.   
   24 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him there until daybreak.   
   25 When the man saw that He did not prevail against Jacob,   
   He touched the socket of his thigh, so the socket of Jacob's thigh   
   was dislocated, as he wrestled with Him.   
   26 Then He said, "Let Me go, for the day breaks."   
   But Jacob said, "I will not let You go, unless You bless me."   
   27 So He said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."   
   28 Then the man said, "Your name will no more be called Jacob, but Israel.   
   For you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."   
   29 Then Jacob asked Him, "Tell me, I pray You, Your name."   
   But He said, "Why do you ask Me My name?" Then He blessed him there.   
      
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