Arcana Coelestia, Vol. VI

15. Thirty milch camels and their colts, forty heifers and ten bullocks, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
16. And he gave into the hand of his servants each drove by itself; and said unto his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove."
17. And he commanded the first, saying, "When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, 'Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?'
18. Then thou shalt say, 'Thy servant Jacob’s; this is a present sent unto my lord Esau; and behold he also is behind us.'"
19. And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that went after the droves, saying, "According to this word shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20. And ye shall also say, 'Behold thy servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he said, "I will expiate original: "expiate" signifies to appease or make favorable his faces in a present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his faces; peradventure he will lift up my faces."
21. And the present passed over before him, and he passed the night in that night in the camp.
22. And he rose up in that night, and took his two women, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the passage of Jabbok.
23. And he took them, and caused them to pass the river, and caused to pass what he had.

24. And Jacob remained alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the dawn arose.
25. And he saw that he prevailed not over him, and he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint in his wrestling with him.
26. And he said, "Let me go, for the dawn ariseth." And he said, "I will not let thee go, unless thou bless me."
27. And he said unto him, "What is thy name?" And he said, "Jacob."