The Book of Genesis-Verse by Verse

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Genesis 32:17 (KJV) And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau 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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Genesis 32:18 (KJV) Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

 

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Genesis 32:19 (KJV) And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

 

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Genesis 32:20 (KJV) And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

 

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Genesis 32:21 (KJV) So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

 

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Genesis 32:22 (KJV) And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

 

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Genesis 32:23 (KJV) And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

 

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Genesis 32:24 (KJV) And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

 

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Genesis 32:25 (KJV) 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 out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

 

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Genesis 32:26 (KJV) And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

 

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Genesis 32:27 (KJV) And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

 

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Genesis 32:28 (KJV) And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

 

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Genesis 32:29 (KJV) And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

 

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Genesis 32:30 (KJV) And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

 

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Genesis 32:31 (KJV) And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

 

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Genesis 32:32 (KJV) Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

 

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Genesis 33:1 (KJV) And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

 

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Genesis 33:2 (KJV) And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

 

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Genesis 33:3 (KJV) And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

 

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Genesis 33:4 (KJV) And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.