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   Bible Reading for January 11   
      
   Genesis Chapter 32   
      
   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.   
      
   22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two   
   womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.   
      
   23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he   
   had.   
      
   24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the   
   breaking of the day.   
      
   25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the   
   hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint,   
   as he wrestled with him.   
      
   26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not   
   let thee go, except thou bless me.   
      
   27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.   
      
   28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for   
   as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.   
      
   29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he   
   said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed   
   him there.   
      
   30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God   
   face to face, and my life is preserved.   
      
   31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted   
   upon his thigh.   
      
   32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank,   
   which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched   
   the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.   
      
   Genesis Chapter 33   
      
   1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and   
   with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and   
   unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.   
      
   2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her   
   children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.   
      
   3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven   
   times, until he came near to his brother.   
      
   4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and   
   kissed him: and they wept.   
      
   5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and   
   said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath   
   graciously given thy servant.   
      
   6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they   
   bowed themselves.   
      
   7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and   
   after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.   
      
   8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he   
   said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.   
      
   9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto   
   thyself.   
      
   10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy   
   sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy   
   face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.   
      
   11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God   
   hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged   
   him, and he took it.   
      
   12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go   
   before thee.   
      
   13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender,   
   and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should   
   overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.   
      
   14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will   
   lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the   
   children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.   
      
   15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are   
   with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of   
   my lord.   
      
   16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.   
      
   17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made   
   booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.   
      
   18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of   
   Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.   
      
   19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at   
      
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