These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 32
Tanakh 32 verses
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And went on his way, and the angels of met him.
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- 2 And said when he saw them: ‘This is Elohim’s camp.’ And he called the of that place Mahanaim.
- 3 And sent messengers before him to his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of .
- 4 And he commanded them, saying: ‘Thus shall ye say unto my lord : Thus saith thy : I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.
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And I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and maid-servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.’
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And the messengers returned to , saying: ‘We came to thy brother , and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.’
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- 7 Then was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.
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And he said: ‘If come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.’
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- 9 And said: ‘O of my father , and of my father , O , who saidst unto me: Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good;
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I am not worthy of all the mercies, and of all the , which Thou hast shown unto Thy ; for with my staff I passed over this ; and now I am become two camps.
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Genesis 24:27 Psalm 18:35 1 Timothy 1:12-15 2 Samuel 7:18 Isaiah 63:7 Genesis 28:15 Micah 7:20 Job 17:9 2 Corinthians 12:11 Daniel 9:8-9 Psalm 16:2 Genesis 18:27 Isaiah 6:5 Genesis 30:43 Genesis 32:5 1 John 1:8-10 Luke 5:8 Genesis 32:7 Luke 17:10 Psalm 8:5 Proverbs 4:18 Deuteronomy 8:18 1 Peter 5:5 Job 8:7 Psalm 85:10 Genesis 28:10-11 Psalm 84:7 Psalm 61:7 Job 42:5-6 - 11 Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of ; for I him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.
- 12 And Thou saidst: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’
- 13 And he lodged there that night; and took of that which he had with him a present for his brother:
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two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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- 15 thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: ‘Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.’
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And he commanded the foremost, saying: ‘When my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
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then thou shalt say: They are thy Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord, even unto ; and, behold, he also is behind us.’
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- 19 And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: ‘In this manner shall ye speak unto , when ye find him;
- 20 and ye shall say: Moreover, behold, thy is behind us.’ For he said: ‘I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his ; peradventure he will accept me.’
- 21 So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
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- 23 And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
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And was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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- 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him.
- 26 And he said: ‘Let me go, for the day breaketh.’ And he said: ‘I will not let thee go, except thou me.’
- 27 And he said unto him: ‘What is thy ?’ And be said: ‘.’
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And he said: ‘Thy shall be called no more , but ; for thou hast striven with and with men, and hast prevailed.’
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- 29 And asked him, and said: ‘Tell me, I pray thee, thy .’ And he said: ‘Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my ?’ And he blessed him there.
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And called the of the place Peniel: ‘for I have seen to , and my life is preserved.’
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Numbers 12:8 Genesis 16:13 Exodus 24:10-11 Isaiah 6:5 Deuteronomy 5:24 Exodus 33:19-23 John 1:18 Exodus 33:14 Genesis 28:19 Galatians 1:6 1 Kings 12:25 2 Corinthians 3:18 2 Timothy 1:10 Judges 8:8 2 Corinthians 4:6 Judges 8:17 Deuteronomy 34:10 Judges 6:22-23 Judges 13:21-22 Colossians 1:15 Hebrews 11:27 Ephesians 1:17 -
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And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.
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Therefore the children of eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein.
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