my staff I have gone this river of Jordan, and now I return with two turmes.  I beseech the Lord keep me from the hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him greatly lest he come and smite down the mother with the sons.  Thou hast said that thou shouldest do well to me and shouldest spread my seed like unto the gravel of the sea, and that it may not be numbered for multitude.  Then when he had slept that night, he ordained gifts for to send to his brother, goats two hundred, kids twenty, sheep two hundred, and rams twenty; forty kine and twenty bulls, twenty asses and ten foals of them.  And he sent by his servants all these beasts; and bade them say that Jacob his servant sent to him this present and that he followeth after.  And Jacob thought to please him with gifts.

The night following, him thought a man wrestled with him all that night till the morning, and when he saw he might not overcome him, he hurted the sinew of his thigh that he halted thereof, and said to him:  Let me go and leave me, for it is in the morning.  Then Jacob answered:  I shall not leave thee but if thou bless me.  He said to him:  What is thy name? he answered:  Jacob.  Then he said:  Nay, said he, thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?  Then Jacob said to him:  What is thy name? tell me.  He answered, Why demandest thou my name, which is marvellous?  And he blessed him in the same place.  Jacob called the name of that same place Penuel, saying:  I have seen our Lord face to face, and my soul is made safe.  And anon as he was past Penuel the sun arose.  He halted on his foot, and therefore the children of Israel eat no sinews because it dried in the thigh of Jacob.  Then Jacob lifting up his eyes saw Esau coming and four hundred men with him, and divided the sons of Leah and of Rachel, and of both their handmaidens, and set each handmaid and their children tofore in the first place, Leah and her sons in the second, and Rachel and Joseph all behind.  And he going tofore kneeled down to ground and, worshipping his brother, approached him.  Esau ran for to meet with his brother, and embraced him, straining his neck, and weeping kissed him, and he looked forth and saw the women and their children, and said:  What been these and to whom longen they?  Jacob answered:  They be children which God hath given to me thy servant and his handmaidens, and their children approached and kneeled down, and Leah with her children also worshipped him, and last of all Joseph and Rachel worshipped him.  Then said Esau:  Whose been these turmes [troops] which I have met?  Jacob answered:  I have sent them to thee, my lord, unto the end that I may stand in thy grace.  Esau said:  I have many myself, keep these and let them be thine.  Nay, said Jacob, I pray thee to take this gift which God hath sent me that I may find grace in thy sight, for meseemeth I see thy visage like the visage of God; and therefore be thou to me