Genesis 32:29

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 27:28-29 : 28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine. 29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
  • Gen 28:3-4 : 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
  • Gen 28:13-14 : 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed. 14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Gen 32:26-27 : 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."
  • Deut 29:29 : 29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
  • Judg 13:16-18 : 16 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh." For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh. 17 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?" 18 The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?"
  • Job 11:7 : 7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
  • Prov 30:4 : 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  • Hos 6:1 : 1 "Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
  • Luke 1:19 : 19 The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

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  • Gen 32:24-28
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    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.

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

    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."

  • Gen 32:30-31
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    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.

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

    10God 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 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 33:10-11
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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.

  • Judg 13:18
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    18The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?"

  • Gen 32:9
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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,'

  • Gen 30:31
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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.

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

  • Gen 32:17
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    17He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

  • Gen 33:8
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    8Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 27:32-33
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    32Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

    33Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

  • Gen 35:15
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    15Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

  • Gen 27:22-24
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    22Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

    23He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

    24He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

  • Gen 30:29
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    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

  • Gen 48:3
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    3Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

  • Gen 32:20
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    20You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

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

  • Gen 29:4-5
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    4Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

    5He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

  • 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 28:16
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    16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."

  • 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."

  • Gen 32:2
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    2When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

  • Gen 28:19
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    19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

  • Gen 31:29
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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.'

  • Gen 28:4
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    4and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."