And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with ..

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And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32:24

Why did Jacob stay behind alone when his family was in danger? His being alone is important for prophetic/metaphorical imagery, but 33:1-2 show that he really wasn't far from his family. At most, they were probably still in sight.

How could Jacob have wrestled with anyone if he was alone? Who was this man? Hosea calls him an angel (Hosea 12:4, Hebrew: malak), but Jacob says the man was God (Genesis 32:29).

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Hashem melech, hashem malach...

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From this angle, he fought with Esau face to face if look from the beginning of this issue. The blessing that he took belonged to Esau in the first place. Esau was a hunter, a fighter a man of the field and Jacob was innocent, lived in tents and intelligent.All his life he did not fight for things even Laban got the better of him because he avoided fighting. Only when Laban confronted him after he fled did he fight back Laban and he left him alone. When he proved to Esau that he can fight that is when Esau gave up fighting him and gave him the name Israel.

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