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Genesis 32
Returning to Canaan, Jacob fears meeting Esau and sends gifts ahead. Alone at the Jabbok he wrestles with a man until daybreak, is wounded in the hip, and receives a new name, Israel. He names the place Peniel: 'I have seen God face to face.'
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- Textually stated
Jacob: Born holding Esau's heel; the name sounds like “heel” and “he supplants” (Genesis 27:36). Renamed Israel, “for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.”
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Jacob, ages 97–108: Limping home as Israel
Before facing Esau, Jacob wrestles through the night and will not let go without a blessing. He is renamed Israel and walks away limping. The old failures are faced, not erased: the brothers meet and weep, Bethel is revisited, Rachel dies on the road. Restora…