19. And so commanded he the second and the third and all that followed those droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau when ye find him.
20. And ye shall also say, Behold, thy slave Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will reconcile his wrath with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.
21. So the present went over before him, and he 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 all that he had.
24. And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
25. And when the man saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was disjointed as he wrestled with him.