Genesis Chapter 32 verse 26 Holy Bible
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.
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And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.
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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh; And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
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and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.'
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Genesis 32 : 26 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - And he (the man) said, Let me go (literally, send me away; meaning that he yielded the victory to Jacob, adding as a reason for his desire to depart), for the day breaketh - literally, for the morning or the dawn ascendeth; and therefore it is time for thee to proceed to other duties (Wilet, Clarke, Murphy), e.g. to meet Esau and appease his anger ('Speaker's Commentary'). Perhaps also the angel was unwilling that the vision which was meant for Jacob only should be seen by others (Pererius), or even that his own glory should be beheld by Jacob (Ainsworth). Calvin thinks the language was so shaped as to lead Jacob to infer nocturna visions se divinitus fuisse edoctum. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. The words show that Jacob now clearly recognized his mysterious Antagonist to be Divine, and sought to obtain from him the blessing which he had previously stolen from his aged father by craft.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Let me go . . . --Heb., send me away, for the gleam of morning has gone up. The asking of permission to depart was the acknowledgment of defeat. The struggle must end at daybreak, because Jacob must now go to do his duty; and the wrestling had been for the purpose of giving him courage, and enabling him to meet danger and difficulty in the power of faith. A curious Jewish idea is that the angel was that one whose duty it was to defend and protect Esau. By the aid of his own protecting angel Jacob, they say, had overpowered him, and had won the birthright and the precedence as "Israel, a prince with God and man."Except thou bless me.--The vanquished must yield the spoil to the victor; and Jacob, who had gradually become aware that the being who was wrestling with him was something more than man, asks of him, as his ransom, a blessing.
