Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 32

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And he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

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

And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn.

Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel which means “I have seen God face to face and my life was spared.”

And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob’s hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him.

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

Then Jacob asked and said, “Please tell me your name.” And he said, “Why do you ask this—for my name?” And he blessed him there.

I am not worthy of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

Therefore the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the sciatic nerve that is upon the socket of the hip unto this day, because he struck the socket of the thigh of Jacob at the sinew of the sciatic nerve.

Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.’

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children alike.