According to the Bible's Genesis 32:28, 30 and Hosea 12:3, 5, God wrestled with whom all night?
Jacob "God," Genesis 32:28, 30, Hosea 12:3, 5; or "angel," Hosea 12:4), and the two wrestled until daybreak. When the being saw that he did not overpower Jacob, he touched Jacob on the sinew of his thigh (the "gid hanasheh", גיד הנשה), and, as a result, Jacob developed a limp (Genesis 32:31). Because of this, "to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket" (). This incident is the source of the mitzvah of porging. Jacob then demanded a blessing, and the being declared in Genesis 32:28 that, from
Hosea 12 him, they seek God. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: NKJV groups this chapter into: This verse consists of two parts which in the original are coordinated. It is better to translate thus: Hosea 12 Hosea 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Hosea son of Beeri, and was delivered about the time of Israel's