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Wrestling at the Jabbok
The night before he meets the brother he cheated, Jacob is left alone by the river Jabbok and wrestles with a stranger until dawn. We read Genesis 32 from the World English Bible, British Edition, then look at who the stranger might have been, the wordplay behind the names Jacob, Israel and Peniel, the river and the town that kept the story's name, the food law that still remembers Jacob's hip, and the artists who painted the scene. Created with the assistance of AI, using an AI-generated voice.
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