Quotes about Encounter
He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
- Genesis 32:17
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
- Genesis 32:24
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Genesis 32:26
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:27
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 32:29
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
- Genesis 32:30
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
- Genesis 32:31
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
- Genesis 33:1
Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
- Genesis 33:6
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
- Genesis 33:8
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- Genesis 34:1
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
- Genesis 35:1