{
  "chapterNum": 32,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 17,
      "text": "He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 18,
      "text": "then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 19,
      "text": "He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 20,
      "text": "You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau  with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 21,
      "text": "So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 22,
      "text": "During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 23,
      "text": "He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 24,
      "text": "So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man  wrestled with him until daybreak."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 25,
      "text": "When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 26,
      "text": "Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”\n    \nBut Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 27,
      "text": "“What is your name?” the man asked.\n    \n“Jacob,” he replied."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 28,
      "text": "Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 29,
      "text": "And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.”\n    \nBut he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 30,
      "text": "So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 31,
      "text": "The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 32,
      "text": "Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon."
    }
  ]
}