Genesis · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Genesis 32 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Jacob siguió su camino y unos ángeles de Dios vinieron a su encuentro.
1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 Cuando los vio dijo: “¡Este debe ser el campamento de Dios!” Y llamó al lugar “Dos campamentos”.
2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 Entonces envió mensajeros a su hermano Esaú, que vivía en la región de Seír, en el país 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 dijo: “Esto es lo que deben decirle a mi señor Esaú: Tu siervo Jacob te envía este mensaje. He estado con Labán 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 y tengo ganado, asnos, ovejas y cabras, así como esclavos y esclavas. He enviado a estos mensajeros para explicarte esto, mi señor, esperando que te alegresde verme”.
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 le dijeron: “¡Su hermano Esaú viene a recibirle con 400 hombres armados!”
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 Cuando Jacob escuchó esto, estaba absolutamente aterrorizado. Dividió a toda la gente con él, junto con las ovejas, las cabras, el ganado y los camellos, en dos grupos,
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 diciéndose a sí mismo: “Si Esaú viene y destruye un grupo, el otro puede escapar”.
8 He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
9 Entonces Jacob oró: “¡Dios de mi abuelo Abraham, Dios de mi padre Isaac! Señor, tú fuiste quien me dijo: ‘Vuelve a tu país y a la casa de tu familia, y te trataré 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 No merezco todo el amor y la fidelidad que has mostrado a tu siervo. Crucé el Jordán hace años con sólo mi bastón, y ahora tengo dos grandes 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 Por favor, sálvame de mi hermano; ¡defiéndeme de Esaú! Me aterra que venga a atacarme a mí, a mis mujeres y a mis 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 Tú mismo me dijiste: ‘Sin duda alguna te trataré bien. Haré que tus descendientes sean tan numerosos como la arena de la playa, demasiados para contarlos’”.
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 Jacob pasó la noche allí. Luego escogió animales como regalo 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 hembras, 20 cabras machos; 200 ovejas, 20 carneros;
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 30 camellos hembras con sus crías, 40 vacas, 10 toros; 20 burros hembras, 10 burros machos.
15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
16 Puso a sus sirvientes a cargo de cada uno de los rebaños y les dijo: “Adelántense y mantengan una buena distancia entre los rebaños”.
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 A los que tenían el primer rebaño les dio estas instrucciones: “Cuando mi hermano Esaú se encuentre con ustedes y les pregunte: ‘¿Quién es su amo, a dónde van, y de quién son estos animales que vienen con ustedes’
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 deberán decirle: ‘Tu siervo Jacob envía estos como regalo a mi señor Esaú, y viene detrás de 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 A los que tenían el segundo, el tercero, y todos los rebaños subsiguientes lesdio las mismas instrucciones, diciéndoles: “Esto es lo que deben decirle a Esaú cuando se encuentre con ustedes.
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 también deben decirle: ‘Tu siervo Jacob viene justo detrás de nosotros’”.
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 Así que los regalos iban adelante mientras Jacob pasaba la noche en el campamento.
21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22 Se levantó durante la noche y tomó a sus dos esposas y a las dos criadas personales y a sus once hijos, y cruzó el río 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 Después de ayudarles a cruzar, también les envió todo lo que les pertenecía.
23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
24 Pero Jacob se quedó allí solo. Un hombre vino y luchó con él hasta el amanecer.
24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25 Cuando el hombre se dio cuenta de que no podía vencer a Jacob, golpeó la cavidad de la cadera de Jacob y la desarticuló 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 hombre dijo: “Déjame ir porque ya casi ha amanecido”. “No te dejaré ir a menos que me bendigas”, respondió Jacob.
26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
27 “¿Cómo te llamas?” le preguntó el hombre. “Jacob”, respondió él.
27 He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
28 “Tu nombre no será más Jacob”, dijo el hombre. “En su lugar te llamarás Israel, porque luchaste con Dios y con los hombres, y ganaste”.
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 “Por favor, dime tu nombre”, preguntó Jacob. “¿Por qué me preguntas mi nombre?” respondió el hombre. Entonces bendijo a Jacob 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 nombró el lugar Peniel, diciendo: “¡Vi a Dios cara a cara y todavía estoy vivo!”
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 Y cuando Jacob se fue de Peniel, ya salía el sol, e iba cojeando por su cadera fracturada.
31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
32 (Por eso, aún hoy, los israelitas no se comen el tendón del muslo que está unido a la cuenca de la cadera, porque ahí es donde el hombre golpeó la cuenca de la cadera de Jacob).
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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“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)