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23 After Jacob had sent his family across, he also sent all his things across the stream. 24 Then Jacob was alone. A man came and fought with him for a long time.[a] They continued until dawn.

25 The man saw that he was not winning the fight against Jacob. So he hit Jacob's hip while they were fighting.[b] In that way, Jacob's hip moved out of its proper place.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:24 God came to Jacob as an angel. See Hosea 12:4-5.
  2. 32:25 The hip is the top of a person's leg, where it joins his body.

23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.(A) 24 So Jacob was left alone,(B) and a man(C) wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip(D) so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

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