[Music] Jacob also went on his way and the angels of God met him when Jacob saw them he said this is the camp of of God so he named that place Maham Jacob sent Messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of sea the country of Edom he instructed them this is what you are to say to my master Esau your servant Jacob says I have been staying with laan and have remained there till now I have cattle and donkeys sheep and goats menservants and Maid servants now I am sending this message
to my Lord that I may find favor in your eyes when The Messengers returned to Jacob they said we went to your brother Esau and now he is coming to meet you and 400 men are with him in great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups and the flocks and herds and camels as well he thought if Esau comes and attacks one group the group that is left May Escape then Jacob PR oh god of My Father Abraham God of my father Isaac oh Lord who said to me
go back to your country and your relatives and I will make you prosper I am Unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan but now I have become two groups save me I pray from the hand of my brother Esau for I am afraid he will come and attack me and also the mothers with their children but you have said I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea which cannot be counted he spent
the night there and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau 200 female goats and 20 male goats 200 ues and 20 Rams 30 female camels with their young 40 cows and 10 bulls and 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys he put them in the care of his servants each her by itself and said to his servants go ahead of me and keep some space between the herds he instructed the one in the lead when my brother Esau meets you and asks to whom do you belong and where
are you going and who owns all these animals in front of you then you are to say they belong to your servant Jacob they are a gift sent to my Lord Esau and he is coming behind us he also instructed the second the third and all the others who followed the herds you are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him and be sure to say your servant Jacob is coming behind us for Jacob thought I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead later when I see him perhaps
he will receive me so Jak Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him but he himself spent the night in the camp that night Jacob got up and took his two wives his two maid servants and his 11 sons and crossed the Ford of the jabc after he had sent them across the stream he sent over all his possessions so Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him till Daybreak when the man saw that he could not overpower him he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled
with the man then the man said let me go for it is Daybreak I will not let you go unless you bless me the man asked him what is your name Jacob your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome please tell me your name why do you ask my name then he blessed him there so Jacob called the place pennial saying it is because I saw God face to face and yet my life was spared the sun rose above him as he passed
penal and he was limping because of his hip therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon [Music] [Music]
