Jacob Wrestles God – Genesis – The Brick Bible

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Then Jacob set out for Canaan to return to his father Isaac. That night he sent his two wives, his two slave-girls, and his eleven children, across shallow section of the Jabbok River.

1 of 12 Genesis 31:18, 32:22

Jacob was left all alone, and a man wrestled with him.

2 of 12 Genesis 32:24

They wrestled until the rise of dawn.

3 of 12 Genesis 32:24

The man saw that he could not defeat Jacob.

4 of 12 Genesis 32:25

So he struck Jacob’s hip so that it became dislocated.

5 of 12 Genesis 32:25

And the man said to Jacob, "Let me go, for dawn is rising."

6 of 12 Genesis 32:26

Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." The man said to him, "What is your name?"

7 of 12 Genesis 32:26[27

He said, "Jacob." And the man said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have wrestled with God and men, and you have prevailed."

8 of 12 Genesis 32:28

Jacob said to the man, "Please tell me your name." And the man replied, "Why do you ask my name?"

9 of 12 Genesis 32:29

And he blessed him there.

10 of 12 Genesis 32:29

So Jacob named this place Peniel, saying, "Surely I have seen God face to face, and I am still alive."

11 of 12 Genesis 32:30

The sun rose as Jacob passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. This is why the Israelites, to this very day, do not eat the muscle on the hip socket, since Jacob was struck on the muscle at the hip socket.

12 of 12 Genesis 32:31–32

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