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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.
That is why, still today, the priests of Dagon and everyone who enters the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on Dagon’s threshold.
When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.
The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel , #– #limping because of his hip.
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming towards him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.
He went from there to Penuel and asked the same thing from them. The men of Penuel answered just as the men of Succoth had answered.
Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.