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Genesis 32 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 También Jacob prosiguió su camino, y unos ángeles de ʼElohim salieron a su encuentro.
1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 Cuando los vio, Jacob dijo: Este es el campamento de ʼElohim y llamó aquel lugar Mahanaim.
2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 Jacob envió mensajeros delante de él a su hermano Esaú, a la tierra de Seír, al campo de Edom,
3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
4 y les ordenó: Así dirán a mi ʼadón Esaú: Tu esclavo Jacob dice así: Viví temporalmente con Labán, con quien me detuve hasta ahora.
4 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
5 Tengo bueyes, asnos y ovejas, esclavos y esclavas, y envío a declararlo a mi ʼadón para hallar gracia ante tus ojos.
5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
6 Los mensajeros volvieron a Jacob y dijeron: Fuimos a tu hermano Esaú, y también él viene a tu encuentro con 400 hombres.
6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
7 Jacob se angustió y tuvo gran temor. Dividió el pueblo, las ovejas, ganado vacuno y los camellos que tenía consigo en dos campamentos,
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies.
8 pues se dijo: Si viene Esaú contra un campamento y lo ataca, el otro campamento escapará.
8 He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
9 Y Jacob dijo: ¡Oh ʼElohim de mi antepasado Abraham [y] de mi padre Isaac! Oh Yavé, que me dijiste: ¡Regresa a tu tierra y a tu parentela y Yo te haré bien!
9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
10 Soy indigno de tus misericordias y de toda la fidelidad que has mostrado a tu esclavo, pues con mi cayado pasé este Jordán y ahora tengo dos campamentos.
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
11 Líbrame, te ruego, de la mano de mi hermano Esaú, pues temo, que venga y me ataque a la madre con los hijos.
11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.
12 Pero Tú mismo dijiste: Ciertamente te haré bien y multiplicaré tu descendencia como la arena del mar, que por ser tanta no se puede contar.
12 You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
13 Pernoctó allí aquella noche. Tomó un presente de lo que le vino a mano para su hermano Esaú:
13 He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:
14 200 cabras y 20 machos cabríos, 200 ovejas y 20 carneros,
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 30 camellas que amamantaban, con sus crías, 40 novillas y diez novillos, 20 asnas y diez pollinos.
15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
16 Los entregó en mano de sus esclavos, cada manada por separado. Y dijo a sus esclavos: Pasen adelante de mí y dejen espacio entre manada y manada.
16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”
17 Y le ordenó al primero: Cuando mi hermano Esaú te encuentre y te pregunte: ¿De quién eres, y a dónde vas, y para quién es esto que llevas delante de ti?
17 He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’
18 le dirás: Es un presente de tu esclavo Jacob, enviado para mi ʼadón Esaú. Y por cierto, él también viene tras nosotros.
18 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”
19 Ordenó también al segundo, al tercero y a todos los que iban tras aquellas manadas: La misma cosa le dirán a Esaú cuando lo encuentren.
19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
20 Y además le dirán: Mira, tu esclavo Jacob viene tras nosotros. Porque pensaba: Apaciguaré su ira con el presente que va delante de mí. Luego veré su rostro, y tal vez él me acepte.
20 You shall say, ‘Not only that, but 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.”
21 Pasó, pues, el presente delante de él, y aquella noche pernoctó en el campamento.
21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22 Aquella misma noche se levantó, tomó a sus dos esposas, a sus dos esclavas y a sus 11 hijos, y atravesó el vado de Jaboc.
22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
23 Los tomó, les ordenó pasar el arroyo y luego ordenó pasar todo lo que tenía.
23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
24 Jacob se quedó solo, y un Varón luchó con él hasta rayar el alba.
24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25 Pero viendo que no podía con él, le atacó el encaje de su muslo, y se le descoyuntó el muslo a Jacob mientras luchaba con Él.
25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
26 Entonces el Varón dijo: Déjame, por que raya el alba. Y Jacob dijo: No te dejaré, si no me bendices.
26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
27 Le preguntó: ¿Cuál es tu nombre? Y él respondió: Jacob.
27 He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
28 Y dijo: Ya no será tu nombre Jacob, sino Israel, porque luchaste con ʼElohim y con los hombres, y venciste.
28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
29 Entonces Jacob le dijo: Te ruego que me declares tu Nombre. Y Él respondió: ¿Por qué preguntas por mi Nombre? Y lo bendijo allí.
29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.
30 Jacob llamó aquel lugar Peni-ʼEl, porque dijo: Vi a ʼElohim cara a cara, y aun así fue librada mi vida.
30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
31 Cuando pasó Peni-ʼEl, salió el sol, y cojeaba por causa de su muslo.
31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
32 Por eso hasta hoy los hijos de Israel no comen del tendón de la cadera que está sobre la coyuntura del muslo, porque Él tocó la coyuntura del muslo de Jacob en el tendón de la cadera.
32 Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Jacob
He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–35; 46–49
Rachel
Jacob's beloved wife, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who died in childbirth.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 29-35
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 91:11; Psalm 34:7; Ephesians 3:10; Hebrews 1:4; 2 Kings 6:16–17
- 2 2 Samuel 2:8; Joshua 5:14; Joshua 21:38; 1 Kings 2:8; Luke 2:13
- 3 Joshua 24:4; Genesis 25:30; Genesis 14:6; Genesis 33:14; Deuteronomy 2:5
- 4 1 Peter 3:6; 1 Kings 20:32; Genesis 33:8; Genesis 32:18; Genesis 27:37
- 5 Genesis 33:8; Genesis 33:15; Job 6:22; Genesis 33:11; 2 Samuel 16:4
- 6 Genesis 33:1; Amos 5:19; Genesis 32:11; Genesis 27:40–41; Genesis 32:8
- 7 Genesis 35:3; Genesis 32:11; Psalm 107:6; Proverbs 2:11; 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
- 8 Genesis 33:1–3; Matthew 10:16
- 9 Genesis 31:42; Psalm 34:4–6; Genesis 31:3; Genesis 28:13; Genesis 31:13
- 10 Psalm 18:35; Genesis 24:27; 2 Samuel 7:18; 1 Timothy 1:12–15; Job 42:5–6
- 11 Psalm 59:1–2; Proverbs 18:19; Matthew 6:13; Psalm 31:2; Daniel 3:17
- 12 Genesis 28:13–15; Hebrews 6:17; Titus 1:2; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 46:3–4
- 13 Proverbs 18:16; Genesis 43:11; Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 19:6; Proverbs 21:14
- 14 Job 1:3; Deuteronomy 8:18; Job 42:12; Genesis 31:16; Genesis 31:9
- 16 Isaiah 28:26; Matthew 10:16; Proverbs 2:11; Genesis 33:8–9; Psalm 112:5
- 17 Genesis 33:3
- 18 Genesis 32:4–5
- 20 Job 42:8–9; Proverbs 21:14; Proverbs 16:14; 2 Timothy 2:25; Genesis 43:11
- 22 Deuteronomy 3:16; Deuteronomy 2:37; Joshua 12:2; 1 Timothy 5:8; Genesis 35:22–26
- 24 Hosea 12:3–5; Ephesians 6:12; Genesis 32:28; Luke 13:24; Genesis 32:30
- 25 2 Corinthians 12:7–9; Hosea 12:3–4; Genesis 32:32; Matthew 26:41; Isaiah 45:11
- 26 Hosea 12:4; Psalm 115:12–13; 2 Corinthians 12:8–9; Psalm 67:1; 1 Chronicles 4:10
- 28 Revelation 2:17; Genesis 35:10; Isaiah 62:2–4; Hosea 12:3–5; Genesis 27:33–36
- 29 Job 11:7; Isaiah 9:6; Judges 13:16–18; Hosea 6:1; Genesis 27:28–29
- 30 Exodus 24:10–11; Numbers 12:8; Isaiah 6:5; Deuteronomy 5:24; Genesis 16:13
- 31 2 Corinthians 12:7; Malachi 4:2; Genesis 19:15; Psalm 38:17; Genesis 32:25
- 32 1 Samuel 5:5
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… eternal, and of right belongs eternally to Jerusalem the free mother, where the genuine people of Israel shall be: for this name is interpreted "Seeing God;" in the desire of which reward a pious life is to be led through faith in this miserable pilgrimage.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And said to Him, "I will not let Thee go, except Thou bless me." When the conqueror was blessed by the Conquered, Christ was figured.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
But this Jacob, when he received another name, heard the same words, "Thou shalt not be called Jacob, but Israel shalt thou be called." Search the Scriptures, and see how that he was always called both, both Jacob and Israel.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)