Versete biblice populare din Genesis 32

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“What is your name?” the man asked. He answered, “Jacob.”

When the man saw that he could not prevail over him, he struck Jacob’s hip at its socket, so that Jacob’s socket was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

After he got them and brought them across the wadi and brought over what belonged to him

Jacob then asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He answered, “Why do you ask for my name?” With that, he blessed him.

Jacob was left there alone. Then a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.

The man then said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go until you bless me.”

Then the man said, “You shall no longer be named Jacob, but Israel, because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed.”

Then Jacob prayed: “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac! You, LORD, who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and your relatives, and I will be good to you.’

At sunrise, as he left Penuel, Jacob limped along because of his hip.

“If Esau should come and attack one camp,” he reasoned, “the remaining camp may still escape.”

I am unworthy of all the acts of kindness and faithfulness that you have performed for your servant: although I crossed the Jordan here with nothing but my staff, I have now grown into two camps.