Genesis 32
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Mahanaim — Wrestling at the Jabbok

Jacob heads home and hears that Esau is coming with four hundred men. He divides his family, prays one of the most honest prayers in Genesis, and sends a large gift ahead. That night, alone at the ford of Jabbok, a man wrestles him until daybreak, cannot prevail, and touches his hip. Jacob will not let go without a blessing. He is given a new name — Israel — and calls the place Peniel: I have seen God face to face.

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