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Genesis 32 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
24 he tarried alone: and behold a man wrestled with him till morning.
25 Who when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.
26 And he said to him: Let me go for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, unless thou bless me.
27 He therefore said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.
28 But he, no, thy name, quoth he, shall not be called Jacob. But Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?
29 Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? and blessed him in the same place.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul was made safe.
31 And immediately the sun rose to him, after that he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.
32 For which cause the children of Israel eat not the sinew, that shrunk in Jacob's thigh, unto this present day: because he touched the sinew of his thigh, and it shrunk.
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