17. Jacob gave them their orders. To the servant with the first group of animals he said, “My brother Esau will come to you and ask, ‘Whose servant are you? Where are you going and whose animals are these?’
18. Then you will answer, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. He sent them as a gift to you, my master Esau, and he also is coming behind us.’ ”
19. Jacob ordered the second servant, the third servant, and all the other servants to do the same thing. He said, “Say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
20. Say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’ ” Jacob thought, “If I send these gifts ahead of me, maybe Esau will forgive me. Then when I see him, perhaps he will accept me.”
21. So Jacob sent the gifts to Esau, but he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22. During the night Jacob rose and crossed the Jabbok River at the crossing, taking with him his two wives, his two slave girls, and his eleven sons.
23. He sent his family and everything he had across the river.
24. So Jacob was alone, and a man came and wrestled with him until the sun came up.
25. When the man saw he could not defeat Jacob, he struck Jacob’s hip and put it out of joint.
26. Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go. The sun is coming up.”But Jacob said, “I will let you go if you will bless me.”
27. The man said to him, “What is your name?”And he answered, “Jacob.”
28. Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. Your name will now be Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with people, and you have won.”
29. Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”But the man said, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
30. So Jacob named that place Peniel, saying, “I have seen God face to face, but my life was saved.”