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20 And moreover, you shall say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “Let me appease him[a] with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will show me favor.”[b] 21 So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.

Jacob Wrestles with God

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

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:20 Literally “let me cover his face”
  2. Genesis 32:20 Literally “lift up my face”