---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Genesis from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 32
verse_count: 32
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Genesis, chap. 32, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Genesis 32

*Jacob's vision He sendeth a present to Esau He wrp.stletli with an angel at Peniel He is called Israel,*

**1** And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
**2** And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host; and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
**3** And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir the country of Edom
**4** And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now;
**5** And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, an I men servants, and womenservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
**6** And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
**7** Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
**8** And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
**9** And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee; 10 1
**10** am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
**11** Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mothers with the children.
**12** And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
**13** And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
**14** Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
**15** Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she asses and ten foals.
**16** And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
**17** And he commanded the foremost, 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, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau; and, behold, also he is behind us.
**19** And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
**20** And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
**21** So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night in the company.
**22** And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
**23** And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
**24** And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
**25** And when he saw that he prevailed net against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
**26** And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
**27** And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
**28** And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
**29** And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
**30** And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
**31** And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
**32** Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.