Jacob Wrestling with Angel. Jacob wrestling with the angel is an episode from Genesis.
The angel in question is referred to as man in Genesis, while Hosea references an angel, but the episode is also often referenced as Jacob's wrestling with God. The account includes the renaming of Jacob as Israel.
In the Genesis narrative, Jacob spent the night alone on a riverside during his journey back to Canaan. He encounters a man who proceeds to wrestle with him until daybreak.
In the end, Jacob is given the name Israel and blessed, while the man refuses to give his own name. Jacob then names the place where they wrestled Penuel.
The Masoretic text reads as follows: The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, Let me go, for the day has broken. But Jacob said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. Then he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed. Then Jacob asked h
The angel in question is referred to as man in Genesis, while Hosea references an angel, but the episode is also often referenced as Jacob's wrestling with God. The account includes the renaming of Jacob as Israel.
In the Genesis narrative, Jacob spent the night alone on a riverside during his journey back to Canaan. He encounters a man who proceeds to wrestle with him until daybreak.
In the end, Jacob is given the name Israel and blessed, while the man refuses to give his own name. Jacob then names the place where they wrestled Penuel.
The Masoretic text reads as follows: The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, Let me go, for the day has broken. But Jacob said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. Then he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed. Then Jacob asked h
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