Genesis Bible Verses | Meaning, Themes & Scriptures

GENESIS 32:20

And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. ...

GENESIS 32:21

So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. ...

GENESIS 32:22

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. ...

GENESIS 32:23

And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. ...

GENESIS 32:24

# And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. ...

GENESIS 32:25

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. ...

GENESIS 32:26

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. ...

GENESIS 32:27

And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob. ...

GENESIS 32:28

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. ...

GENESIS 32:29

And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. ...