NKJV Bible in 365 Days
Jacob Wrestles God & Meets Esau — January 10
Genesis 32-34
Genesis 32
1 So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 365N 10.1
2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place [a] Mahanaim. 365N 10.2
3 Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the [b] country of Edom. 365N 10.3
4 And he commanded them, saying, “Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now. 365N 10.4
5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ” 365N 10.5
6 Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” 365N 10.6
7 So Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies. 365N 10.7
8 And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and [c] attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.” 365N 10.8
9 Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: 365N 10.9
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies. 365N 10.10
11 Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and [d] attack me and the mother with the children. 365N 10.11
12 For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ” 365N 10.12
13 So he lodged there that same night, and took what [e] came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother: 365N 10.13
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 365N 10.14
15 thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 365N 10.15
16 Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.” 365N 10.16
17 And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?’ 365N 10.17
18 then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.’ ” 365N 10.18
19 So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, “In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him; 365N 10.19
20 and also say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.” 365N 10.20
21 So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp. 365N 10.21
22 And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. 365N 10.22
23 He took them, sent them [f] over the brook, and sent over what he had. 365N 10.23
24 Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the [g] breaking of day. 365N 10.24
25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He [h] touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 365N 10.25
26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” 365N 10.26
27 So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” 365N 10.27
28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but [i] Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 365N 10.28
29 Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there. 365N 10.29
30 So Jacob called the name of the place [j] Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 365N 10.30
31 Just as he crossed over [k] Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip. 365N 10.31
32 Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He [l] touched the socket of Jacob’s hip in the muscle that shrank. 365N 10.32
Genesis 33
1 Now Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and there, Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants. 365N 10.33
2 And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. 365N 10.34
3 Then he crossed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 365N 10.35
4 But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 365N 10.36
5 And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?” So he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 365N 10.37
6 Then the maidservants came near, they and their children, and bowed down. 365N 10.38
7 And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down. 365N 10.39
8 Then Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” And he said, “ These are to find favor in the sight of my lord.” 365N 10.40
9 But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.” 365N 10.41
10 And Jacob said, “No, please, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present from my hand, inasmuch as I have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me. 365N 10.42
11 Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have [a] enough.” So he urged him, and he took it. 365N 10.43
12 Then Esau said, “Let us take our journey; let us go, and I will go before you.” 365N 10.44
13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flock will die. 365N 10.45
14 Please let my lord go on ahead before his servant. I will lead on slowly at a pace which the livestock that go before me, and the children, [b] are able to endure, until I come to my lord in Seir.” 365N 10.46
15 And Esau said, “Now let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.” 365N 10.47
16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 365N 10.48
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made [c] booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called [d] Succoth. 365N 10.49
18 Then Jacob came [e] safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan Aram; and he pitched his tent before the city. 365N 10.50
19 And he bought the parcel of [f] land, where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money. 365N 10.51
20 Then he erected an altar there and called it El [g] Elohe Israel. 365N 10.52
Genesis 34
1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 365N 10.53
2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her. 365N 10.54
3 His soul [a] was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke [b] kindly to the young woman. 365N 10.55
4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this young woman as a wife.” 365N 10.56
5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob held [c] his peace until they came. 365N 10.57
6 Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. 365N 10.58
7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing which ought not to be done. 365N 10.59
8 But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 365N 10.60
9 And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves. 365N 10.61
10 So you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you. Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions for yourselves in it.” 365N 10.62
11 Then Shechem said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give. 365N 10.63
12 Ask me ever so much dowry [d] and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife.” 365N 10.64
13 But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. 365N 10.65
14 And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us. 365N 10.66
15 But on this condition we will consent to you: If you will become as we are, if every male of you is circumcised, 365N 10.67
16 then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us; and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 365N 10.68
17 But if you will not heed us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be gone.” 365N 10.69
18 And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 365N 10.70
19 So the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. He was more honorable than all the household of his father. 365N 10.71
20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying: 365N 10.72
21 “These men are at peace with us. Therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it. For indeed the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us as wives, and let us give them our daughters. 365N 10.73
22 Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us, to be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. 365N 10.74
23 Will not their livestock, their property, and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.” 365N 10.75
24 And all who went out of the gate of his city heeded Hamor and Shechem his son; every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 365N 10.76
25 Now it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males. 365N 10.77
26 And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went out. 365N 10.78
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled. 365N 10.79
28 They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field, 365N 10.80
29 and all their wealth. All their little ones and their wives they took captive; and they plundered even all that was in the houses. 365N 10.81
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me by making me obnoxious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my household and I.” 365N 10.82
31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?” 365N 10.83