Genesis 32:26
Good News Translation
The man said, "Let me go; daylight is coming." "I won't, unless you bless me," Jacob answered.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”

Contemporary English Version
They kept on wrestling until the man said, "Let go of me! It's almost daylight." "You can't go until you bless me," Jacob replied.

New American Bible
The man then said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go until you bless me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Let me go.

Exodus 32:10 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Songs 7:5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

Isaiah 45:11 Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.

Isaiah 64:7 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

Luke 24:28,29 And they drew nigh to the town whither they were going: and he made as though he would go farther. . . .

I will not.

Songs 3:4 When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.

Hosea 12:4 And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

Luke 18:1-7 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint, . . .

Romans 8:37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:8,9 For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart from me. . . .

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

thou bless.

1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabes called upon the God of Israel, saying: If blessing thou wilt bless me, and wilt enlarge my borders, and thy hand be with me, and thou save me from being oppressed by evil. And God granted him the things he prayed for.

Psalm 67:1,6,7 Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David. [2] May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us. . . .

Psalm 115:12,13 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron. . . .

Context
Jacob Wrestles with God
25And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank. 26And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.27And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.…
Cross References
Genesis 32:25
And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.

Genesis 32:27
And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.

Hosea 12:4
And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

Genesis 32:25
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