<p class="bodytext">The messengers returned to Jacob and said, &#8220;We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.&#8221;

Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob prayed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O <sc>Lordsc>, you said<n id="2" /> to me, &#8216;Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.&#8217;<n id="3" />

then you must say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;They belong<n id="2" /> to your servant Jacob.<n id="3" /> They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau.<n id="4" /> In fact Jacob himself is behind us.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

When the man<n id="1" /> saw that he could not defeat Jacob,<n id="2" /> he struck<n id="3" /> the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.p>

&#8220;No longer will your name be Jacob,&#8221; the man told him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;but Israel,<n id="2" /> because you have fought<n id="3" /> with God and with men and have prevailed.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob asked, &#8220;Please tell me your name.&#8221;<n id="1" /> &#8220;Why<n id="2" /> do you ask my name?&#8221; the man replied.<n id="3" /> Then he blessed<n id="4" /> Jacob<n id="5" /> there.

So Jacob named the place Peniel,<n id="1" /> explaining,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Certainly<n id="3" /> I have seen God face to face<n id="4" /> and have survived.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

But<n id="1" /> Jacob traveled to Succoth<n id="2" /> where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called<n id="3" /> Succoth.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near<n id="1" /> the city.

<p class="bodytext">Jacob&#8217;s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem<n id="1" /> had violated their sister Dinah.

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked<n id="1" /> because he wanted Jacob&#8217;s daughter Dinah<n id="2" /> badly. (Now he was more important<n id="3" /> than anyone in his father&#8217;s household.)<n id="4" />

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, &#8220;Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you.<n id="1" /> Purify yourselves and change your clothes.<n id="2" />

and they started on their journey.<n id="1" /> The surrounding cities were afraid of God,<n id="2" /> and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel)<n id="1" /> in the land of Canaan.<n id="2" />

So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him.<n id="1" /> He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">The sons of Zilpah, Leah&#8217;s servant, were Gad and Asher.p> <p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre,<n id="1" /> to Kiriath Arba<n id="2" /> (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.<n id="3" />

Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors.<n id="1" /> He died an old man who had lived a full life.<n id="2" /> His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.p>

But Jacob did not send Joseph&#8217;s brother Benjamin with his brothers,<n id="1" /> for he said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What if some accident<n id="3" /> happens<n id="4" /> to him?&#8221;