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The World English Bible (WEB): by Anonymous
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was strained, as he wrestled.
032:026 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said,
"I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
032:027 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
032:028 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel;
for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
032:029 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."
He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?"
He blessed him there.
032:030 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel{Peniel means "face
of God."}: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face,
and my life is preserved."
032:031 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped
because of his thigh.
032:032 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of
the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day,
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
of the hip.
033:001 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming,
and with him four hundred men. He divided the children
between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
033:002 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her
children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
033:003 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself
to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
033:004 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him,
and they wept.
033:005 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;
and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children
whom God has graciously given your servant."
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