Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 32

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But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered. I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

He remained alone: and, behold, a man wrestled with him till morning.

And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.

And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.

Jacob asked him, Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob's thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.

And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee

Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.