Genesis 32 (NET)

Genesis 32:1¹So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 91:112 Kgs 6:16-17Eph 3:10Heb 1:4Ps 34:71 Cor 3:22

Genesis 32:2²When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 2:8Josh 21:38Josh 5:141 Kgs 2:82 Sam 17:24Luke 2:13Ps 148:2Ps 34:71 Kgs 4:142 Kgs 6:17

Genesis 32:3³Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:30Josh 24:4Deut 2:5Gen 14:6Gen 33:14Deut 2:22Gen 27:41-42Gen 33:16Gen 36:6-9Luke 14:31-32

Genesis 32:4⁴He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:61 Kgs 20:321 Sam 26:17Eccl 10:4Exod 32:22Gen 23:6Gen 27:29Gen 27:37Gen 32:18Gen 32:5

Genesis 32:5⁵I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 33:8Gen 33:152 Sam 16:4Gen 30:43-31:1Gen 31:16Gen 33:11Gen 47:25Job 6:22Ruth 2:21 Sam 1:18

Genesis 32:6⁶The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has 400 men with him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 33:1Amos 5:19Gen 27:40-41Gen 32:11Gen 32:8

Genesis 32:7⁷Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 35:32 Cor 1:42 Cor 1:8-102 Tim 3:12Acts 14:22Exod 14:10Gen 32:11Isa 28:26John 16:33Matt 10:16

Genesis 32:8⁸“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought, “then the other camp will be able to escape.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 33:1-3Matt 10:16

Genesis 32:9⁹Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:42Ps 34:4-6Gen 28:13Gen 31:13Gen 31:3Gen 31:53Ps 50:151 Sam 30:62 Chr 20:62 Chr 32:20

Genesis 32:10¹⁰I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 18:35Gen 24:271 Tim 1:12-152 Sam 7:181 John 1:8-101 Pet 5:52 Cor 12:11Dan 9:8-9Deut 8:18Gen 18:27

Genesis 32:11¹¹Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:13Prov 18:19Ps 59:1-21 Sam 12:101 Sam 24:15Dan 3:17Gen 27:41Hos 10:14Ps 119:134Ps 142:6

Genesis 32:12¹²But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:13-15Heb 6:172 Tim 2:13Gen 22:17Gen 46:3-4Matt 24:35Titus 1:21 Sam 15:29Exod 32:13Gen 32:6

Genesis 32:13¹³Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother EsauCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 18:16Gen 43:11Gen 43:26Prov 17:8Prov 19:6Prov 21:141 Sam 25:271 Sam 25:8Gen 18:2Gen 32:20-21

Genesis 32:14¹⁴200 female goats and 20 male goats, 200 ewes and 20 rams,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 8:18Job 1:3Job 42:121 Sam 25:2Gen 30:43Gen 31:16Gen 31:9

Genesis 32:15¹⁵30 female camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, and 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 32:16¹⁶He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 32:20Gen 33:8-9Isa 28:26Matt 10:16Prov 2:11Ps 112:5

Genesis 32:17¹⁷He instructed the servant leading the first herd, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 33:3

Genesis 32:18¹⁸then you must say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 32:4-5

Genesis 32:19¹⁹He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 32:20²⁰You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought, “I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 42:8-9Prov 21:141 Kgs 20:311 Sam 25:17-351 Sam 6:52 Tim 2:25Gen 43:11Jonah 3:9Prov 15:18Prov 16:14

Genesis 32:21²¹So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 32:22²²During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:16Deut 2:371 Tim 5:8Josh 12:2Gen 35:22-26Gen 35:18Gen 29:21-30:24

Genesis 32:23²³He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 32:24²⁴So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 12:3-5Eph 6:12Gen 32:28Luke 13:24Gen 32:30Eph 6:18Gen 30:8Luke 22:441 Cor 15:47Gen 48:16

Genesis 32:25²⁵When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 12:7-9Hos 12:3-4Gen 32:32Isa 41:14Isa 45:11Matt 26:41Gen 19:22Matt 15:22-28Num 14:13-14Ps 30:6-7

Genesis 32:26²⁶Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 12:4Ps 115:12-132 Cor 12:8-91 Chr 4:10Ps 67:1Song 3:4Luke 18:1-7Luke 24:28-29Rom 8:37Exod 32:10

Genesis 32:27²⁷The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 32:28²⁸“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 2:17Gen 35:10Isa 62:2-4Hos 12:3-5Gen 27:33-36Gen 17:5Gen 17:15Gen 25:31Gen 33:4Isa 65:15

Genesis 32:29²⁹Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:6Job 11:7Judg 13:16-18Gen 27:28-29Gen 28:13-14Hos 6:1Luke 1:19Prov 30:4Gen 28:3-4Gen 32:26-27

Genesis 32:30³⁰So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:10-11Isa 6:5Num 12:8Deut 5:24Gen 16:13Exod 33:19-23John 1:182 Tim 1:10Eph 1:17Exod 33:14

Genesis 32:31³¹The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 12:72 Cor 12:9Gen 19:15Gen 19:23Gen 32:25Judg 8:8Mal 4:2Ps 38:17

Genesis 32:32³²That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 5:5