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12:5 \u201c\u2018He strove with the Messenger and prevailed–he wept and pleaded with him. At Bethel he did find him, \u2018And there he spoke with us.\u2019\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He wept and pleaded with him<\/span><\/em>: This clause presents a rather different picture of the struggle with the divine adversary from the one in Genesis 32. Unlike the story in Genesis, the adversary here is reduced to tears and pleading.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Bethel he did find him<\/span><\/em>: In context, this has to mean that the mysterious stranger found Jacob at Bethel. Again, this differs from the tradition in Genesis, where the nocturnal encounter is at the Jabbok ford, whereas at Bethel, in Jacob\u2019s flight to Aram, he had the epiphany of the angels ascending and descending on a ramp (or ladder).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And there he spoke with us<\/span><\/em>: <\/span><\/i>The import of this clause is unclear. Perhaps the people of Israel are represented as confidently declaring that God spoke to them at Bethel through Jacob. Bethel was a principal cult-site of the northern kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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