Lavan rose early in the morning. He kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them. Lavan departed and returned to his place.

Yaakov went on his way, and the angels of Elohim met him.

When Yaakov saw them, he said, This is Elohim’s camp. [This is a camp from before Elohim.] He named the place Machanayim.

Yaakov sent messengers before him to Eisov, his brother, to the Land of Seir, to the field of Edom.

He commanded them saying, This is what you should say to my master, Eisov. Your servant, Yaakov says, I lived as a stranger with Lavan, and was delayed until now.

I acquired oxen, donkeys, sheep, servants and maidservants. I have sent [these messengers] to tell my master, to find favor in your eyes.

The messengers returned to Yaakov saying, We came to your brother, to Eisov, and he is also coming to meet you; and there are four hundred men with him.

Yaakov was very frightened, and distressed. He divided the people that were with him, along with the sheep, cattle and camels, into two camps.

He said, If Eisov comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining camp will survive.

Yaakov said, God of my father Avraham, and God of my father Yitzchok, Adonoy Who said to me, Return to your land, to your birthplace, and I will do good with you.

I am unworthy [My merits are few] because of all the kindness and of all the faithfulness [goodness] that you have done with Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan [only] with my staff [alone], and now I have become two camps.

Rescue me, I pray [now], from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Eisov, for I fear him, that he will come and attack me—mother and children alike.

You have said, I will do very good with you, and I will make your offspring [many] like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.

He spent that night there. He took from that which comes into his hand, [for] a present to his brother, Eisov.

Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams.

Thirty nursing camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

He placed them in the hand of his servants, each herd by itself. He said to his servants, Pass on ahead of me, and keep a space between each herd.

He commanded the first one, saying, When my brother, Eisov meets you and asks you saying, To whom do you belong, and where are you going; and who is the owner of this that is before you?

You should [then] say, [They belong] to your servant, Yaakov. It is a present sent to my master, Eisov, and see, he is also [coming] behind us.

He also commanded the second and also the third, and to all who followed after the herds, saying, In like manner must you speak to Eisov when you find [meet] him.

You should also say, See, your servant Yaakov is [coming] behind us. For he said, I will appease him [quieten his anger] with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I will see his face, perhaps he will forgive me.

The present passed on ahead of him, but he spent the night in the camp.

He got up that night and took his two wives, his two handmaids [concubines], and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of the Yabbok [River].

He [then] took them and crossed them over the stream. He [also] brought over all that he possessed.

Yaakov remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

He [the man] saw that he could not defeat him, and he struck the socket [girth] of his hip. [The girth of] Yaakov’s hip joint was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

He [the man] said, Let me go, for the dawn is breaking. He [Yaakov] said, I will not let you go unless you bless me.

He [the man] said to him, What is your name? And he replied, Yaakov.

He [the man] said, No longer will your name be spoken of as Yaakov, but as Yisrael, for you have contended with God[ly beings] [are great before God] and with men, and you have won.

Yaakov asked him, and said, Please [Now] tell me your name. He said, Why then do you ask my name? He then blessed him [Yaakov] there.

Yaakov named the place Peniel [God’s Face], For I have seen God[ly beings] [Angles of God] face to face, and my soul has survived.

The sun shone for him as he passed by Penuel, and he limped due to his hip.

Therefore, the children of Israel must not eat the displaced tendon [nerve] which is on the [girth of the] hip joint to this very day; because he struck [the girth of] Yaakov’s hip joint on the displaced tendon.