Genesis 32:1
Jacob Wrestles at Peniel So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.
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- Ps 91:11 : 11 For he will order his angels to protect you in all you do.
- 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,
- Eph 3:10 : 10 The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.
- Heb 1:4 : 4 Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.
- 2 Kgs 6:16-17 : 16 He replied,“Don’t be afraid, for our side outnumbers them.” 17 Then Elisha prayed,“O LORD, open his eyes so he can see.” The LORD opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
- Ps 34:7 : 7 The LORD’s angel camps around the LORD’s loyal followers and delivers them.
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2When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed,“This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
3Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.
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11In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.
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1The Marriages of Jacob So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.
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29Then Jacob asked,“Please tell me your name.”“Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
30So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
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12and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it
- Gen 32:20-245 verses72%
20You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”
21So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.
22During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.
24So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
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25Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.
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27The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”
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1The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
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3At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him
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9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
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2When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.
3The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.
5There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
- Gen 32:8-92 verses71%
8“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.”
9Then Jacob prayed,“O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me,‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’
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3Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”
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6The messengers returned to Jacob and said,“We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”
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13Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.
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10Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.
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5and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz(that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
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2God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said,“Jacob, Jacob!” He replied,“Here I am!”
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16Then Jacob woke up and thought,“Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
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20Then Jacob made a vow, saying,“If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,
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17He instructed the servant leading the first herd,“When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’
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2Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
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23So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
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15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
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1Jacob Meets Esau Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.