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Book of Genesis, Chapter 32

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Genesis 32 NASB - New American Standard BibleGenesis 32 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 32 of Genesis—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now as Jacob went on his way, 1the angels of God met him.
  2. Jacob said when he saw them, “This is God’s [a]camp.” So he named that place [b]2Mahanaim.
  3. ¶ Then Jacob 3sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of 4Seir, the [c]country of 5Edom.
  4. He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, “I have sojourned with Laban, and 6stayed until now;
  5. 7I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, 8that I may find favor in your sight.”’”
  6. ¶ The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore 9he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
  7. Then Jacob was 10greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;
  8. for he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and [d]attacks it, then the company which is left will escape.”
  9. ¶ Jacob said, “O 11God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘12Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will [e]prosper you,’
  10. [f]I am unworthy 13of all the lovingkindness and of all the [g]faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.
  11. 14Deliver me, I pray, 15from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and [h]attack me and the 16mothers with the children.
  12. For You said, ‘17I will surely [i]prosper you and 18make your [j]descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”
  13. ¶ So he spent the night there. Then he [k]selected from what [l]he had with him a 19present for his brother Esau:
  14. two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
  15. thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
  16. He delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on before me, and put a space between droves.”
  17. He commanded the [m]one in front, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?’
  18. then you shall say, ‘These belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.’”
  19. Then he commanded also the second and the third, and all those who followed the droves, saying, “After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;
  20. and you shall say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.’” For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”
  21. So the present passed on before him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.
  22. ¶ Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the 20Jabbok.
  23. He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.
  24. ¶ Then Jacob was left alone, and a man 21wrestled with him until daybreak.
  25. When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
  26. Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “22I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
  27. So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”
  28. 23He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but [n]Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”
  29. Then 24Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.
  30. So Jacob named the place [o]Peniel, for he said, “25I have seen God face to face, yet my [p]life has been preserved.”
  31. Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over 26Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.
  32. Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or company
  2. ^ I.e. Two Camps, or Two Companies
  3. ^ Lit field
  4. ^ Lit smites
  5. ^ Lit do good with you
  6. ^ Lit I am less than all
  7. ^ Or truth
  8. ^ Lit smite
  9. ^ Lit do good with
  10. ^ Lit seed
  11. ^ Lit took
  12. ^ Lit had come to his hand
  13. ^ Lit first
  14. ^ I.e. he who strives with God; or God strives
  15. ^ I.e. the face of God
  16. ^ Lit soul

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Ki 6:16, 17; Ps 34:7
  2. ^ Jos 21:38; 2Sa 2:8
  3. ^ Ge 27:41, 42; 32:7, 11
  4. ^ Ge 14:6; 33:14
  5. ^ Ge 25:30; 36:8, 9
  6. ^ Ge 31:41
  7. ^ Ge 30:43
  8. ^ Ge 33:8
  9. ^ Ge 33:1
  10. ^ Ge 32:11
  11. ^ Ge 28:13; 31:42
  12. ^ Ge 28:15; 31:3, 13
  13. ^ Ge 24:27
  14. ^ Ps 59:1, 2
  15. ^ Ge 27:41, 42; 33:4
  16. ^ Ho 10:14
  17. ^ Ge 28:14
  18. ^ Ge 22:17
  19. ^ Ge 43:11
  20. ^ De 3:16; Jos 12:2
  21. ^ Ho 12:3, 4
  22. ^ Ho 12:4
  23. ^ Ge 35:10; 1Ki 18:31
  24. ^ Jg 13:17, 18
  25. ^ Ge 16:13; Ex 24:10, 11; 33:20; Nu 12:8; Jg 6:22; 13:22
  26. ^ Jg 8:8

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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