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And he commanded them, saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban and have delayed until now.
And I have acquired cattle and donkeys and sheep and menservants and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord Esau, that your servant may find favour before you.'"
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and behold, he himself is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, 'Hasten back to the land of your birth, and I will do you good,'
the sum of all the righteousness and all the truth that you have done for your servant is enough for me; for with my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
But you yourself said, 'I will surely do you good, and I will make your seed like the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for its multitude.'"
And he gave them into the hand of his servants, each flock by itself, and he said to his servants, "Go on ahead of me, and leave a space between flock and flock."
And he commanded the first, saying, "If Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you, and where are you going, and whose are these that go before you?'"
And he commanded the first, and the second, and the third, and all those going on behind these flocks, saying: According to this word shall you speak to Esau when you find him.
And you shall say: Behold, your servant Jacob is coming behind us. For he said: I will appease his face with the gifts that go before him, and after this I shall see his face; for perhaps he will accept my face.
And he saw that he could not prevail against him, and he touched the broad part of his thigh; and the broad part of Jacob's thigh became numb while he wrestled with him.
And he said to him: Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name, because you have prevailed with God, and with men you are mighty.
For this reason the sons of Israel shall not eat the sinew that became numb, which is upon the broad part of the thigh, until this day; because he touched the broad part of Jacob's thigh, the sinew, and it became numb.