Genesis 32:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.

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  • Gen 19:15 : 15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.
  • Gen 19:23 : 23 The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.
  • Gen 32:25 : 25 But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.
  • Judg 8:8 : 8 So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.
  • Ps 38:17 : 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
  • 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

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    21 So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.

    22 And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

    23 He took them and sent them over the stream with all he had.

    24 Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.

    25 But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.

    26 And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.

    27 Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

    28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

    29 Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.

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    32 For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.

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    25 Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.

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    1 And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

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    11 And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

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    13 Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.

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