Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 32:26
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Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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Genesis 32
24 So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
25 When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 “What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
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