Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 32

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Then he said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men, and you have won.”

The man said, “Let me go. It's daybreak.” Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”

Jacob was left alone, and he wrestled with a man there until daybreak.

Jacob named the place Peniel, because he said, “I have seen God face-to-face, and my life has been spared.”

When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he touched the socket of his thigh, and the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated as he wrestled.

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

Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why do you ask what my name is?” Then he blessed him there.

I am not worthy of even a bit of all the mercy and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for I crossed over this Jordan with just my staff, and now I have grown into two camps.

For that reason, to this day the people of Israel do not eat the tendon of the hip that is on the socket of the thigh, because God touched the socket of Jacob's thigh on the tendon of the hip.

Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will do good for you,’

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid that he will come and strike me and the mothers, as well as the children.