Jacob’s Wrestle with the Angel
Jacob’s Wrestle with the Angel
This could also be appropriately understood as a sacred embrace. “When one considers that the word conventionally translated as ‘wrestled’ (yē’āvēq) can just as well mean ‘embrace’ and that it was in this ritual embrace that Jacob received a new name and the bestowal of priestly and kingly power at sunrise (KJV Genesis 32:24 – 30 [Genesis 9:44]), the parallel to the Egyptian coronation embrace becomes at once apparent.”1 See SACRED EMBRACE.
1 Hugh Nibley, The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 434.