Génesis 32:22

Jacob lucha con un ángel

22 Aquella misma noche Jacob se levantó, tomó a sus dos esposas, a sus dos esclavas y a sus once hijos, y cruzó el vado del río Jaboc.

Génesis 32:22 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 32:22

And he rose up that night
In the middle of it, for it was long before break of day, as appears from ( Genesis 32:24 ) ; and took his two wives,
Rachel and Leah, and his two womenservants,
Bilhah and Zilpah, or, "his two concubines", as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; which distinguishes them from other womenservants or maidservants, of which, no doubt, he had many: and his eleven sons;
together with Dinah his daughter, though not mentioned, being the only female child, and a little one: and passed over the ford Jabbok;
over that river, at a place of it where it was fordable, or where there was a ford or passage: this was a river that took its rise from the mountains of Arabia, was the border of the Ammonites, washed the city Rabba, and ran between Philadelphia and Gerasa, and came into the river Jordan, at some little distance from the sea of Gennesaret or Galilee ^F4, about three or four miles from it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Hieron, de loc. Heb. fol. 92. f. Adrichom, Theatrum Terrae, S. p. 32.

Génesis 32:22 In-Context

20 y añadirán: “Su siervo Jacob viene detrás de nosotros”».Jacob pensaba: «Lo apaciguaré con los regalos que le llegarán primero, y luego me presentaré ante él; tal vez así me reciba bien».

21 De esta manera los regalos lo precedieron, pero Jacob se quedó esa noche en el campamento.

22 Aquella misma noche Jacob se levantó, tomó a sus dos esposas, a sus dos esclavas y a sus once hijos, y cruzó el vado del río Jaboc.

23 Una vez que lo habían cruzado, hizo pasar también todas sus posesiones,

24 quedándose solo. Entonces un hombre luchó con él hasta el amanecer.