The man said, “Let me go, because it’s daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.” The man asked, “What is your name?” and he answered, “Jacob.” Then the man said, “From now on, you will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; because you have shown your strength to […]
32-3: Who was the “man” that Jacob wrestled?
He took them and sent them across the stream, then sent his possessions across; and Jacob was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that he did not defeat Jacob, he struck Jacob’s hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him. The man said, “Let me go, […]
32-2: As Jacob faced Esau, so too must we reconcile with our past
The messengers returned to Ya‘akov saying, “We went to your brother ‘Esav, and he is coming to meet you; with him are four hundred men.” Jacob became greatly afraid and distressed. -Genesis 32:7-8 It’s important to keep in mind that Jacob was now quite an old man at this time in his life. Depending on which […]
32-1: Jacob meets angels on his departure from and to the Promised Land
Today we begin Genesis Chapter 32. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. If you prefer the King James version, click here. “And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. […]
31-5: Jacob and Laban enter into a peace treaty with each other
After Laban finishes searching every tent in Jacob’s party and fails to find his god idols, Jacob’s long pent-up anger explodes. “These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock. That which was torn by beasts I did not […]
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