Kejadian 32:4

32:4 He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant ¹  Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

Kejadian 32:10

32:10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love ²  you have shown ³  your servant. With only my walking stick ⁴  I crossed the Jordan, ⁵  but now I have become two camps.

Kejadian 32:17

32:17 He instructed the servant leading the first herd, ⁶  “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? ⁷  Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’ ⁸ 

Kejadian 32:19

32:19 He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. ⁹ 

Kejadian 32:25

32:25 When the man ¹⁰  saw that he could not defeat Jacob, ¹¹  he struck ¹²  the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

Kejadian 32:32

32:32 That is why to this day ¹³  the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck ¹⁴  the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.

[32:4]  ¹ sn Your servant. The narrative recounts Jacob’s groveling in fear before Esau as he calls his brother his “lord,” as if to minimize what had been done twenty years ago.

[32:10]  ² tn Heb “the loving deeds and faithfulness” (see 24:27, 49).

[32:10]  ³ tn Heb “you have done with.”

[32:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “for with my staff.” The Hebrew word מַקֵל (maqel), traditionally translated “staff,” has been rendered as “walking stick” because a “staff” in contemporary English refers typically to the support personnel in an organization.

[32:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “this Jordan.”

[32:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “the first”; this has been specified as “the servant leading the first herd” in the translation for clarity.

[32:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “to whom are you?”

[32:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “and to whom are these before you?”

[32:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “And he commanded also the second, also the third, also all the ones going after the herds, saying: ‘According to this word you will speak when you find him.’”

[32:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:25]  ¹² tn Or “injured”; traditionally “touched.” The Hebrew verb translated “struck” has the primary meanings “to touch; to reach; to strike.” It can, however, carry the connotation “to harm; to molest; to injure.” God’s “touch” cripples Jacob – it would be comparable to a devastating blow.

[32:32]  ¹³ sn On the use of the expression to this day, see B. S. Childs, “A Study of the Formula ‘Until This Day’,” JBL 82 (1963): 279-92.

[32:32]  ¹⁴ tn Or “because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck.” Some translations render this as an impersonal passive. On the translation of the word “struck” see the note on this term in v. 25.