Jacob Wrestles With a Nephilim 'god'

¹ Jacob went on his way, and the agents of Anu met him.

² When Jacob saw them, he said:

Jacob

This is Anu’s camp!

So he called that place Mahanaim.

³ Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Jacob

⁴ Tell Esau that I have been staying with Laban. ⁵ I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. I am sending this message to him, that I may find his favor.

⁶ The messengers returned to Jacob, saying:

Messengers

We came to your brother Esau. He also came to meet you with 400 men.

⁷ Jacob became greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into 2 bands.

⁸ If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

Jacob

⁹ Oh Anu. You told me to return to my country and to my kindred, and you will make me prosper.

¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant. With my staff, I passed over this Jordan. Now I am become two bands.

¹¹ Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau. I fear that he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. ¹² You said that You will do me good and make my seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

¹³ He lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother.

• ¹⁴ 200 she goats
• 20 he goats
• 200 ewes
• 20 rams
• ¹⁵ 30 milch camels with their colts
• 40 kine
• 10 bulls
• 20 she asses
• 10 foals.

¹⁶ He gave them to his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants:

Jacob

Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.

¹⁷ He commanded the foremost servant:

Jacob

Esau will ask you:

• Whose are you?
• Where are you going?
• Whose are these before you?

¹⁸ Reply that they are mine. They are a present for him and that I am coming.

19 He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds:

Jacob

You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. 20 And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’

For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”

²¹ So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

Jacob Wrestles With a Nephilim (Human-Anunnaki hybrid)

²² That night, Jacob got up and took his 2 wives, his 2 female servants and his 11 sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

²³ After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.

²⁴ When Jacob was left alone, a Nephilim wrestled with him till daybreak.

²⁵ When the Nephilim saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled.

²⁶ Then the Nephilim said:

Nephilim

Let me go, for it is daybreak.

Jacob

I will not let you go unless you bless me.

Nephilim

²⁷ What is your name?

Jacob

Jacob

Nephilim

²⁸ Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with the Nephilim and with humans and have won.

Jacob

²⁹ Please tell me your name.

Nephilim

Why do you ask my name?

Then he blessed him there.

³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying:

Jacob

It is because I saw the Nephilim face to face, and yet my life was spared.

³¹ The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel. He was limping because of his hip.

³² Therefore to this day, the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.