52 This heap be witness, and to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap, and this pillar, unto me, for harm. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac. 54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. GENESIS XXXII:1-32— B. C. 1739 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, and menservants, and womenservants; and I have sent 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 I 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 mother 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 me, and afterward I will see his twenty he goats, two hundred ewes face; peradventure he will accept and twenty rams, of me. 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. 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 womenservants, 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. 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh and there wrestled a man with 24 And Jacob was left alone; thee, saying, Whose art thou? and him, until the breaking of the day. 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. 25 And when he saw that he prethe hollow of his thigh: and the vailed not against him, he touched 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 20 And say ye moreover, Be- is thy name? And he said, Jacob. hold, thy servant Jacob is behind * 28 And he said, Thy name shall us. For he said, I will appease him be called no more Jacob, but with the present that goeth before Israel: for as a prince hast thou *Gen. 32:28—“Jacob's” name is changed to "Israel." The name "Israel" means "El does battle," and Jehovah was the warrior El after whom the nation styled itself. Encyc. Brit. 9th Ed. Who brought down the Holy Bible to the birth of Jesus Christ? The spiritually endowed of the seed of Seth. St. Luke 1:67-70-67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 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. GENESIS XXXIII:1-20— 1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his 11 Take, I pray thee, my bless- tent, at the hand of the children ing that is brought to thee; be- of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money. cause God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly; according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel. GENESIS XXXV:1-29B. C. 1716 1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: be cause there God appeared unto multiply; a nation and a company him, when he fled from the face of his brother. of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 And the land which I gave give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath | Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. * 9¶ And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. 10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and *Gen. 17:1-19, and Gen. 35:9-15-Jacob succeeds to the covenant of Abraham and also to the covenant of Isaac. Gen. 22:1-19, and 35:9-15-"The House of Israel" has received England, Scotland, Ireland, (the northwest part is largely Anglo-Saxon), Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and she occupies part of Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, besides many islands of the seas; the Waldenses must not be forgotten. The "House of Israel" controls India, most of Africa, most of Palestine and down the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf, besides the main gates of the earth. Gen. 22:15-19—15 ¶ “And the Angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time. 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying, I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up, and went together to Beersheba, and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba." |