Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 33

GEN ESIS. wrestled with him until the departure divinities face to face and preserved saw thewives and children and asked, which GOD has given me, your ser· of the darlcness. He saw, however, that he was not equal to him, so he teuched him in the hollow of the thigh, amd struck the hollow of the thigh of jacob whilst wrestling with Release me, for the diirkness is going} I will not let you

Then he What is your name? ]acob.' Your name

shall no longer be called jacob, but ‘ Israel ’ ;-—~for you have wrestled with a Divine Messenger, as with men, and been equal to it} Tell me your name? ’ Why do you ask

but he then blessed him. jacob, consequently, called the

—·—that And the sun arose on him the children of Israel do not eat the sinew~nerve from the foot to the thigh until this day, for he struck jacob in the sinewmerve at the hollow of the thigh. iamh mth {Esau ment. saw that Esau approached, and four hundred men with him; so he sepa— Rachel, and of the two second wives, and placed the second wives and their children in the front, and Leah to his brother. But Esau rushed forwards, and

on his neck and kissed him, and wept. Then he lifted his eyes and ‘ Who are these with you ? ’ The children

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eleven lads and crossed the ford of jabok. 26 28 35 So he took them and passed them

over the brook, and sent over all who were with him. jacob, however, was left alone by himself, and a man for I have seen as he crossed over from Peniel, but he limped on his thigh. Therefore

33 Then jacob raised his eyes and rated the children of Leah and of and her children next, and Rachel and joseph behind; but he passed to the front of them and bowed to the earth seven times whilst approaching called to, and embraced him, and fell Then the second wives approached

with their children and they bowed. Leah also came forward and her children, and they bowed, and after- Awards joseph and Rachel, and they bowed. What is all this camp with yon which approaches me 'I`o find favour in the eyes of my Lord l I have

plenty, my brother: let your own But jacob said, ‘ Not so; if now I have found favour in your eyes, take a present from my hand, for certainly I have seen your face as if I had seen the face of GOD, and am delighted. Now do take the thanks which I have brought to you, for GOD has favoured me, and because there is plenty for me as So he pressed him until he took them. I will rise up and

travel and we will go along together] My Lord

knows that the children are many, and the sheep and the cattle with me are breeding, so if we drive them a single day, then all the sheep will die. But let my Lord now go before me, and I will be travelling at my ease, according to the pace of the guide before me, and the pace of the children, until that I come to my Lord, at Seir.’ I will then assign

to you some of the people who are Why have I

found this favour in the eyes of my So Esau returned that day on his

journey to Seir, but jacob pitched his tent, and built himself a house, and cattle yards, making an encamp- ment; therefore he called the name of the place Skuth. Afterwards, jacob went quietly to

the village of Shekhem, which is in the land of Canan, on his return from Padan Aram, and encamped IO II I2 16 18

before the village, and bought that rg part ofthe land,where he pitched his tent, from the hand of the son of Hamor the father of Shekhem for a hundred kesitas. He also built an zo Altar there and called on GOD, the GOD of Israel. when translated from the l lebrew.——F. F. 33