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    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 32
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 32,
    "bookSlug": "genesis",
    "bookCode": "GEN",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "Jacob wrestles at Peniel + renamed Israel, on the eve of meeting Esau",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-32:1",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.1",
        "text": "And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-32:2",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.2",
        "text": "And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God`s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-32:3",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.3",
        "text": "And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-32:4",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.4",
        "text": "And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-32:5",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.5",
        "text": "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 favor in thy sight."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-32:6",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.6",
        "text": "And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-32:7",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.7",
        "text": "Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-32:8",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.8",
        "text": "and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-32:9",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.9",
        "text": "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good:"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-32:10",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.10",
        "text": "I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-32:11",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.11",
        "text": "Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-32:12",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.12",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-32:13",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.13",
        "text": "And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-32:14",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.14",
        "text": "two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-32:15",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.15",
        "text": "thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-32:16",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.16",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-32:17",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.17",
        "text": "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?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-32:18",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.18",
        "text": "then thou shalt say [They are] thy servant Jacob`s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-32:19",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.19",
        "text": "And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him;"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-32:20",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.20",
        "text": "and ye shall say, 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 me."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-32:21",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.21",
        "text": "So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-32:22",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.22",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-32:23",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.23",
        "text": "And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "GEN-32:24",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.24",
        "text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "GEN-32:25",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.25",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "GEN-32:26",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.26",
        "text": "And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "GEN-32:27",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.27",
        "text": "And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "GEN-32:28",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.28",
        "text": "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "GEN-32:29",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.29",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "GEN-32:30",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.30",
        "text": "And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, [said he], I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "GEN-32:31",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.31",
        "text": "And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "GEN-32:32",
        "verseRef": "Gen.32.32",
        "text": "Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob`s thigh in the sinew of the hip."
      }
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