If any of you bible-thumpers can come up with an explanation of this passage from Genesis that doesn't have Jacob sending his 2 wives (tell me again what the traditional, biblical definition of marriage is?) and other family members away so that God can brutally ass-rape Jacob and send him home limping from the experience, I'd love to hear it.
GENESIS 33:22 - The same night he rose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23 - He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that they had.
24 - And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
25 - When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.
26 - Then he said 'Let me go, for the day is breaking.' But Jacob said, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.'
27 - And he said to him. 'What is your name?' And he said 'Jacob.'
28 - Then he said, 'Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.'
29 - Then Jacob asked him, 'Tell me, I pray, what is your name.' But he said 'Why is it that you ask my name?' And there he blessed him.
30 - So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying 'For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.'
31 - The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh.
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