- Is any detail (purpose) set forth for the meeting with God’s messenger?
- What place name derivative results from this “meeting”?
- What appears to be Jacob’s anticipation of how Esau will receive him?
- Does Jacob plan to fight, or to salvage what he can?
- In Jacob’s prayer (Genesis 32:10–13), what promise does he recall and what does he plead for?
- Is there any reply to this prayer (at this point)?
- How does Jacob seek to placate the anticipated reaction of Esau? (Genesis 32:14–20)
- How is Jacob’s intent specifically stated in Genesis 32:21 – to apologize and/or to placate anger?
- How to translate Ish (“a man”) in Genesis 32:25 – and why the “wrestling” and why “until the dawn”?
- Who, in Genesis 32:27, appears victorious?
- The translation of the new name specifies “contesting with God”; what might it mean?
- What does the change of name specify, from (literally) “trickster” to “fighter with (for) God”?
- One might ask “how does this compare (if it can be compared) with Genesis 32:4:24-26”?
- What food prohibition does the text derive from this encounter (Genesis 32:23) and what is the time element devolving from the phrase “to this day”?
