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When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.
Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.’
This is what the Lord, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker, says: ‘Ask me what is to happen to my sons, and instruct me about the work of my hands.
Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you’ – this is the Lord’s declaration. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
That is why, still today, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.
Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.’ Therefore the name of the city is Zoar. ,
After leaving them, he went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.
Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Then he said to Jacob, ‘Let me go, for it is daybreak.’ But Jacob said, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.’