Genesis 32

Question 1

Genesis 32:1

Answer 1

Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Question 2

Genesis 32:2

Answer 2

When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.

Question 3

Genesis 32:3

Answer 3

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Question 4

Genesis 32:4

Answer 4

He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my master Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

Question 5

Genesis 32:5

Answer 5

I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’”

Question 6

Genesis 32:6

Answer 6

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

Question 7

Genesis 32:7

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Genesis 32:8

Answer 8

He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”

Question 9

Genesis 32:9

Answer 9

Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’

Question 10

Genesis 32:10

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Genesis 32:11

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Genesis 32:12

Answer 12

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.’”

Question 13

Genesis 32:13

Answer 13

He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:

Question 14

Genesis 32:14

Answer 14

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Question 15

Genesis 32:15

Answer 15

thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Question 16

Genesis 32:16

Answer 16

He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”

Question 17

Genesis 32:17

Answer 17

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?’

Question 18

Genesis 32:18

Answer 18

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.’”

Question 19

Genesis 32:19

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Genesis 32:20

Answer 20

And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”

Question 21

Genesis 32:21

Answer 21

So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

Question 22

Genesis 32:22

Answer 22

That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Question 23

Genesis 32:23

Answer 23

After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.

Question 24

Genesis 32:24

Answer 24

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.

Question 25

Genesis 32:25

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Genesis 32:26

Answer 26

Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

Question 27

Genesis 32:27

Answer 27

The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.

Question 28

Genesis 32:28

Answer 28

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.”

Question 29

Genesis 32:29

Answer 29

Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.

Question 30

Genesis 32:30

Answer 30

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

Question 31

Genesis 32:31

Answer 31

The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Question 32

Genesis 32:32

Answer 32

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.