Genesis 32
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Genesis 32:22-32

22Now he got up that same night and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven children, and crossed the shallow place of the 1Jabbok.

23He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.

24Then Jacob was left alone, and a man 2wrestled with him until daybreak.

25When the man saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of 3Jacob’s hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

26Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “4I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

27So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

28Then 5he said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but 6Israel; for you have contended with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

29And 7Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

30So Jacob named the place 8Peniel, for he said, “9I have seen God face to face, yet my 10life has been 11spared.”

31Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over 12Penuel, and he was limping on his hip.

32Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the tendon of the hip which is on the socket of the hip, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip in the tendon of the hip.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 32:22 Deut 3:16; Josh 12:2 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 32:24 Hos 12:3, 4 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 32:25 Lit his ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 32:26 Hos 12:4 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 32:28 Gen 35:10; 1 Kin 18:31 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 32:28 I.e., he who contends with God; or God contends ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 32:29 Judg 13:17, 18 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 32:30 I.e., the face of God ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 32:30 Gen 16:13; Ex 24:10, 11; 33:20; Num 12:8; Judg 6:22; 13:22 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 32:30 Lit soul ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 32:30 Lit saved ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 32:31 Judg 8:8 ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 32

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