Genesis 32:24

World English Bible (2000)

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

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  • Hos 12:3-5 : 3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God. 4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us, 5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

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  • Gen 32:25-32
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    87%

    25 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

    26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."

    27 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

    28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

    29 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

    30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

    31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

    32 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

  • Hos 12:3-4
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    3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

    4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

  • Gen 32:21-23
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    21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

    22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

    23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

  • Gen 32:1-2
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    1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

    2 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

  • Gen 32:7-9
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    7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

    8 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

    9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'

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

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

    10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

  • Gen 28:15-16
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    15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

    16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."

  • Gen 31:20-21
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    20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.

    21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

  • Gen 31:42
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    42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

  • Gen 46:2
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    2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."

  • Gen 31:25
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    25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

  • Gen 27:36
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    36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

  • Gen 25:26
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    26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

  • Gen 30:8
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    8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

  • Gen 31:36
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    36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

  • Gen 31:11
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    11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

  • Gen 32:13
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    13 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

  • Gen 30:42
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    42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

  • Gen 31:3
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    3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

  • Gen 35:6
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    6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

  • Gen 49:24
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    24 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),