Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 32

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“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Then He said to Jacob, “Let Me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me.”

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

Jacob then named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “and I have been delivered.”

When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.

“What is your name? ” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.

Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.” But He answered, “Why do you ask My name? ” And He blessed him there.

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

That is why, to this day, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because He struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.

Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.