THEOSISGenesis 32:26Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
וַיַּ֗רְא כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יָכֹל֙ ל֔וֹ וַיִּגַּ֖ע בְּכַף־יְרֵכ֑וֹ וַתֵּ֙קַע֙ כַּף־יֶ֣רֶךְ יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּהֵֽאָבְק֖וֹ עִמּֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Hos 12:4And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
- Ps 115 (113):12
- Ps 115 (113):13
- 2 Cor 12:8For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart from me.
- 2 Cor 12:9And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
- Ps 67 (66):1
- 1 Chr 4:10And Jabes called upon the God of Israel, saying: If blessing thou wilt bless me, and wilt enlarge my borders, and thy hand be with me, and thou save me from being oppressed by evil. And God granted him the things he prayed for.
- Song 3:4When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.