Vayishlach

Returning to the land, Jacob sends messengers ahead to Esau and learns his brother is coming with four hundred men. Afraid, he divides his camp in two, prays — "I am unworthy of all the kindness You have shown" — and sends waves of livestock ahead as a gift. That night, alone at the Jabbok crossing, a man wrestles with him until dawn, wrenching his hip; Jacob will not let go without a blessing, and receives a new name, Israel, "for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed." He names the place Peniel and limps away at sunrise.

The meeting he feared dissolves in embrace: Esau runs to him, falls on his neck, and weeps. Jacob presses his gift on him — "seeing your face is like seeing the face of God" — and the brothers part in peace, Jacob settling near Shechem. There Dinah, Leah's daughter, is taken and violated by Shechem son of Hamor. His offer of marriage is answered deceitfully with a demand that the city's males be circumcised; on the third day Simeon and Levi kill them all and take the women and wealth, and Jacob rebukes them for making him odious in the land.

At God's word Jacob returns to Bethel, burying the foreign gods under the terebinth; God appears again, confirms the name Israel, and renews the covenant promise. On the road Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin and is buried on the way to Ephrath, with a pillar over her grave. The twelve sons are named; Isaac dies at a hundred and eighty and is buried by Esau and Jacob together. The portion closes with the generations of Esau and the chiefs and kings of Edom.