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Genesis Chapter 32

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Genesis

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In this chapter Abraham wrestles with his servant to find a wife for his son Isaac, and the servant suggests the maidservant Hagar. Abraham agrees, and the servant takes Hagar to his house. The chapter highlights themes of divine providence, the value of a good marriage, and the consequences of deception.

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(1) And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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Psalms 91:11Hebrews 1:4I Corinthians 3:22Ephesians 3:10

(2) And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
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Joshua 5:14II Kings 6:17Psalms 34:7Psalms 103:21Psalms 148:2Daniel 10:20Luke 2:13Joshua 21:38II Samuel 2:8II Samuel 2:12II Samuel 17:24II Samuel 17:26

(3) And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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Malachi 3:1Luke 9:52Luke 14:31Luke 14:32Genesis 14:6Genesis 33:14Genesis 33:16Genesis 36:6Genesis 36:7Genesis 36:8Deuteronomy 2:5Deuteronomy 2:22

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Genesis 36:8Joshua 24:4Judges 11:17II Samuel 8:14

(4) And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
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Genesis 32:5Genesis 32:18Genesis 4:7Genesis 23:6Genesis 27:29Genesis 27:37Genesis 33:8Exodus 32:22I Samuel 26:17Proverbs 6:3Proverbs 15:1Luke 14:11

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Genesis 29:10

(5) And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
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Genesis 30:43Genesis 31:1Genesis 31:16Genesis 33:11Job 6:22Genesis 33:8Genesis 33:15Genesis 47:25Ruth 2:2I Samuel 1:18II Samuel 16:4

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Romans 11:6Genesis 12:16Exodus 33:13I Corinthians 15:10Hebrews 4:16Genesis 20:14

(6) And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
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Genesis 32:8Genesis 32:11Genesis 27:40Genesis 27:41Genesis 33:1Amos 5:19

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Ezekiel 48:16Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13Ezekiel 1:10Revelation 7:1Judges 6:35

(7) Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
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Exodus 14:10Psalms 18:4Psalms 18:5Psalms 31:13Psalms 55:4Psalms 55:5Psalms 61:2Psalms 142:4Matthew 8:26John 16:33Acts 14:22II Corinthians 1:4

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Genesis 24:35II Kings 24:2Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(8) And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
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Genesis 33:1Genesis 33:2Genesis 33:3Matthew 10:16

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(9) And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
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I Samuel 30:6II Chronicles 20:6II Chronicles 20:12II Chronicles 32:20Psalms 34:4Psalms 34:5Psalms 34:6Psalms 50:15Psalms 91:15Philippians 4:6Philippians 4:7Genesis 17:7

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Song of Solomon 6:13Genesis 25:11II Kings 4:26Genesis 25:6Ruth 1:6II Chronicles 30:6

(10) I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
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Genesis 18:27II Samuel 7:18Job 42:5Job 42:6Psalms 16:2Isaiah 6:5Isaiah 63:7Daniel 9:8Daniel 9:9Luke 5:8Luke 17:10II Corinthians 12:11

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Joshua 3:17Joshua 4:7I Samuel 9:4II Kings 24:2Joshua 5:1Judges 11:29

(11) Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
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I Samuel 12:10I Samuel 24:15Psalms 16:1Psalms 25:20Psalms 31:2Psalms 43:1Psalms 59:1Psalms 59:2Psalms 119:134Psalms 142:6Proverbs 18:19Daniel 3:17

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Luke 12:53Matthew 5:25Zechariah 11:6

(12) And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
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Genesis 32:6Exodus 32:13Numbers 23:19I Samuel 15:29Matthew 24:35II Timothy 2:13Titus 1:2Hebrews 6:17Genesis 28:13Genesis 28:14Genesis 28:15Genesis 46:3

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(13) And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
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I Samuel 25:8Genesis 32:20Genesis 32:21Genesis 18:2Genesis 33:10Genesis 42:6Genesis 43:11Genesis 43:26I Samuel 25:27Proverbs 17:8Proverbs 18:16Proverbs 19:6

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Genesis 32:21

(14) Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
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Genesis 30:43Genesis 31:9Genesis 31:16Deuteronomy 8:18I Samuel 25:2Job 1:3Job 42:12

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(15) Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
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Genesis 45:23Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:13Judges 12:14I Kings 7:38Judges 10:4

(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.
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Genesis 32:20Genesis 33:8Genesis 33:9Psalms 112:5Proverbs 2:11Isaiah 28:26Matthew 10:16

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(17) And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
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Genesis 33:3

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(18) Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
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Genesis 32:4Genesis 32:5

(19) And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
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Revelation 8:12I Kings 18:34Luke 12:38Revelation 21:19II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2

(20) And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
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Genesis 43:11I Samuel 25:17I Samuel 25:18I Samuel 25:19I Samuel 25:20I Samuel 25:21I Samuel 25:22I Samuel 25:23I Samuel 25:24I Samuel 25:25I Samuel 25:26I Samuel 25:27

(21) So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
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Genesis 32:13

(22) And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
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Genesis 29:21Genesis 29:22Genesis 29:23Genesis 29:24Genesis 29:25Genesis 29:26Genesis 29:27Genesis 29:28Genesis 29:29Genesis 29:30Genesis 29:31Genesis 29:32

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I Samuel 9:4Judges 11:29II Samuel 15:23

(23) And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
(24) And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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Genesis 30:8Luke 13:24Luke 22:44Romans 8:26Romans 8:27Romans 15:30Ephesians 6:12Ephesians 6:18Colossians 2:1Colossians 4:12Hebrews 5:7Genesis 32:28

(25) And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
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Genesis 19:22Numbers 14:13Numbers 14:14Isaiah 41:14Isaiah 45:11Hosea 12:3Hosea 12:4Matthew 15:22Matthew 15:23Matthew 15:24Matthew 15:25Matthew 15:26

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Genesis 32:32I Kings 6:27

(26) And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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Exodus 32:10Deuteronomy 9:14Song of Solomon 7:5Isaiah 45:11Isaiah 64:7Luke 24:28Luke 24:29Song of Solomon 3:4Hosea 12:4Luke 18:1Luke 18:2Luke 18:3

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Psalms 115:12

(27) And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
(28) And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
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Genesis 17:5Genesis 17:15Genesis 33:20Genesis 35:10Numbers 13:16II Samuel 12:25II Kings 17:34Isaiah 62:2Isaiah 62:3Isaiah 62:4Isaiah 65:15John 1:42

(29) And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
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Genesis 32:27Deuteronomy 29:29Judges 13:16Judges 13:17Judges 13:18Job 11:7Proverbs 30:4Isaiah 9:6Luke 1:19Genesis 32:26Genesis 27:28Genesis 27:29

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(30) And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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Genesis 28:19Judges 8:8Judges 8:17I Kings 12:25Genesis 16:13Exodus 24:10Exodus 24:11Exodus 33:14Exodus 33:19Exodus 33:20Exodus 33:21Exodus 33:22

(31) And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
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Genesis 19:15Genesis 19:23Malachi 4:2Genesis 32:25Psalms 38:17II Corinthians 12:7II Corinthians 12:9

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(32) Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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I Samuel 5:5

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