Ayat Alkitab yang Popular daripada Genesis 32

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Then he said, “Your name won’t be Jacob any longer, but Israel, because you struggled with God and with men and won.”

The man said, “Let me go because the dawn is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I won’t let you go until you bless me.”

But Jacob stayed apart by himself, and a man wrestled with him until dawn broke.

Jacob named the place Peniel, “because I’ve seen God face-to-face, and my life has been saved.”

When the man saw that he couldn’t defeat Jacob, he grabbed Jacob’s thigh and tore a muscle in Jacob’s thigh as he wrestled with him.

He said to Jacob, “What’s your name?” and he said, “Jacob.”

Jacob also asked and said, “Tell me your name.” But he said, “Why do you ask for my name?” and he blessed Jacob there.

I don’t deserve how loyal and truthful you’ve been to your servant. I went away across the Jordan with just my staff, but now I’ve become two camps.

Therefore, Israelites don’t eat the tendon attached to the thigh muscle to this day, because he grabbed Jacob’s thigh muscle at the tendon.

Jacob said, “LORD, God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I’ll make sure things go well for you,’

Save me from my brother Esau! I’m afraid he will come and kill me, the mothers, and their children.