Genesis 32:31

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So Jacob called the name of that place Peniel, saying, 'I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.'

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  • Gen 19:15 : 15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."
  • Gen 19:23 : 23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
  • Gen 32:25 : 25 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
  • Judg 8:8 : 8 From there he went up to Penuel and made the same request of them, but they answered him just as the men of Succoth had.
  • Ps 38:17 : 17 For I said, "Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me."
  • 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And because of the extraordinary revelations, so that I might not become conceited, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me, so that I would not become conceited.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

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    21 You are to say, 'Your servant Jacob is behind us.' For he thought, 'I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me. After I see him, perhaps he will accept me.'

    22 So the gift passed on ahead of him while he stayed that night in the camp.

    23 During the night, Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

    24 After he had sent them across the stream, he also sent over all his possessions.

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

    26 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was dislocated as they wrestled.

    27 Then the man said, 'Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.' But Jacob replied, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.'

    28 The man asked him, 'What is your name?' 'Jacob,' he answered.

    29 Then the man said, 'Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.'

    30 Jacob said, 'Please tell me your name.' But he replied, 'Why do you ask my name?' Then he blessed him there.

  • Gen 32:32
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    32 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, limping because of his hip.

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    3 The LORD has a charge against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him for his deeds.

    4 In the womb, he grasped his brother’s heel; and in his strength, he struggled with God.

  • Gen 31:21
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    21 So Jacob fled with all he had. He crossed the river and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 28:11-12
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    11 He came to a certain place, stayed there for the night because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

    12 And he dreamed; behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven. The angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

  • Gen 35:9-10
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    9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-Aram, and He blessed him.

    10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel." So He named him Israel.

  • Gen 25:26
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    26 After that, his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

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    25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 32:1-2
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    1 Early in the morning, Laban rose and kissed his sons and daughters, blessed them, and left, returning to his home.

    2 Jacob went on his way, and angels of God met him.

  • Gen 33:10
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    10 Jacob said, 'No, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. Seeing your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have accepted me.'

  • Gen 31:11-12
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    11 In the dream, the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'

    12 He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

  • Gen 35:13
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    13 Then God ascended from him at the place where He had spoken with him.

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    2 Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was no longer the same as it had been before.

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    18 Early in the morning, Jacob took the stone he had used as a pillow, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

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    17 He also tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

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    5 He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

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    8 From there he went up to Penuel and made the same request of them, but they answered him just as the men of Succoth had.

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    42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

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    36 Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

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    9 He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.'

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    6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 25:29
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    29 One day when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.

  • Gen 35:15
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    15 Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

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    36 Then Jacob became angry and confronted Laban. 'What is my crime?' he asked. 'What sin have I committed that you have pursued me?