“And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.”
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. The nighttime crossing of the Jabbok moves the family to the far side before the wrestling encounter of verses 24-32. The name Jabbok contains the Hebrew consonants of Jacob's name — the place-name is a pun on the man who will wrestle there. The application: the geography of significant encounters is rarely accidental in the biblical narrative.
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