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Genesis 32:20-27 English Standard Version (ESV)

20. and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

21. So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

22. The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

23. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.

24. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

25. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.

26. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

27. And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”