Genesis 32:27
The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”
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28“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
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.”
31The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.
- Gen 32:23-264 verses85%
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.
25When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
26Then the man said,“Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“unless you bless me.”
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9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
10God said to him,“Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.
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2God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said,“Jacob, Jacob!” He replied,“Here I am!”
- Gen 27:35-362 verses76%
35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
- Gen 32:8-92 verses75%
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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11In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.
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31So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:
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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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32His father Isaac asked,“Who are you?”“I am your firstborn son,” he replied,“Esau!”
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3The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
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10“No, please take them,” Jacob said.“If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.
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22So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said,“The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”
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24Then he asked,“Are you really my son Esau?”“I am,” Jacob replied.
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26When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
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1Jacob Wrestles at Peniel So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.
2When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed,“This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
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8Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.”
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15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
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18He went to his father and said,“My father!” Isaac replied,“Here I am. Which are you, my son?”
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31But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”
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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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4He commanded them,“This is what you must say to my lord Esau:‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.
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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.”
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4Jacob asked them,“My brothers, where are you from?” They replied,“We’re from Haran.”
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3Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.
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36Jacob became angry and argued with Laban.“What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban.“What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?
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42If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
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15So Esau said,“Let me leave some of my men with you.”“Why do that?” Jacob replied.“My lord has already been kind enough to me.”
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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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19He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.