Holy Scripture
Genesis 32:25
A church father on this verse
“Believing Jews and unbelieving Jews. Where were they first condemned? In the first of them, in the father of all of them, Jacob himself, who was also called Israel. Jacob means "supplanter" or "heel"; Israel means "seeing God." When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia with his children, an angel wrestled with him, represe…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
25And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning.
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23And he rose up in that night, and took his two wives and his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.
24And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions.
— Genesis 32:25 —
26And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob’s thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him.
27And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.