And he commanded the foremost, saying:
When Esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee saying: whose
servant art thou and whither goest thou, and whose are these that
go before thee: thou shalt say, they be thy servant Iacob's, and
are a present sent unto my lord Esau, and behold, he himself
cometh after us. And so commanded he the second, and even so the
third, and likewise all that followed the droves saying, of this
manner see that ye speak unto Esau when ye meet him, and say
moreover. Behold thy servant Iacob cometh after us, for he said. I
will pease his wrath with the present that goeth before me and
afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will receive
me to grace. So went the present before him and he tarried all
that night in the tent, and rose up the same night and took his
two wives and his two maidens and his eleven sons, and went over
the ford Iabok. And he took them and sent them over the river, and
sent over that he had and tarried behind himself alone. And there
wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the day. And when he
saw that he could not prevail against him, he smote him under the
thigh, and the sinew of Iacob's thigh shrank as he wrestled with
him. And he said: let me go, for the day breaketh.
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