Genesis 32:26

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Hos 12:4 : 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,
  • Ps 115:12-13 : 12 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. 13 He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.
  • Song 3:4 : 4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!" God granted him that which he requested.
  • Ps 67:1 : 1 May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
  • Luke 18:1-7 : 1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, 2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man. 3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" 6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. 7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
  • 2 Cor 12:8-9 : 8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
  • Luke 24:28-29 : 28 They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further. 29 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.
  • Rom 8:37 : 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Ps 67:6-7 : 6 The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us. 7 God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
  • Exod 32:10 : 10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."
  • Deut 9:14 : 14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
  • Isa 45:11 : 11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
  • Isa 64:7 : 7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

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

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

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

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

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

    32Therefore 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.

  • Gen 32:22-25
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    22He 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.

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

    24Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

    25When 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.

  • Gen 27:35-36
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    35He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

    36He 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 35:9-10
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    9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

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  • Gen 30:26-27
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    26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."

    27Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

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    3In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

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  • Gen 31:42
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    42Unless 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 33:10-12
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    10Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

    11Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

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  • Gen 33:15
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    15Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 28:15-16
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    15Behold, 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."

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

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    31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

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    56He said to them, "Don't hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."

  • Gen 31:29-30
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    29It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'

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    9Jacob 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,'

  • Exod 4:23
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    23and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

  • Gen 31:55
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    55Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

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    32Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

  • Gen 48:16
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    16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

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

  • Gen 26:24
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    24Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

  • Gen 25:31
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    31Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."

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    38Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

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    26After 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.

  • Num 10:31
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    31He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

  • Gen 32:11
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    11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

  • Gen 47:10
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    10Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

  • Exod 9:2
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    2For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

  • Gen 31:13
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    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

  • Num 22:13
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    13Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you."