17. And he instructed the foremost, saying, “When Esau my brother comes upon you and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you and where are you going? To whom do these animals belong ahead of you?’
18. Then you must say, ‘To your servant, to Jacob. It is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. Now behold, he is also coming after us.’ ”
19. And he also instructed the second servant and the third, and everyone else who was behind the herds, saying, “You must speak to Esau according to this word when you find him.
20. And moreover, you shall say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he thought, “Let me appease him with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will show me favor.”
21. So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.
22. That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23. And he took them and sent them across the stream. Then he sent across all his possessions.
24. And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn.
25. And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob’s hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him.
26. Then he said, “Let me go, for dawn is breaking.” But he answered, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27. Then he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”