Genesis 32:24

And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23And he rose up in that night, and took his two wives and his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.

25And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28And he said to him, What is thy name? and he answered, Jacob.

Genesis 48:16the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth.

Song of Solomon 2:17Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, 1 Turn, my kinsman, 1 Be thou like to a roe or young hart 1 On the mountains of the ravines.

Hosea 12:3And the Lord has a controversy with Judah, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:14-24

Jacob's Present to Esau. ( b. c. 1739.) 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he… Read the whole commentary →

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