Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 32

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Then He said to him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he said.

When He saw that He had not overcome him, He struck the socket of his hip, so He dislocated the socket of Jacob’s hip when He wrestled with him.

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

Then Jacob asked and said, “Please tell me Your name.” But He said, “What’s this—you are asking My name?” Then He blessed him there.

So Jacob remained all by himself. Then a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.

Then He said, “Let Me go, for the dawn has broken.” But he said, “I won’t let You go unless You bless me.”

Then He said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but rather Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men, and you have overcome.”

Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, ADONAI, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will do good with you.’

Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed by Peniel—limping because of his hip.

for he thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and strikes it, the camp that’s left will escape.”

I am unworthy of all the proofs of mercy and of all the dependability that you have shown to your servant. For with only my staff I crossed over this Jordan, and now I’ve become two camps.