marathon match, they began to speak. The unknown assailant began: “ ‘Let me go, for the day has broken.’ But Jacob said, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me’ ” (v. 26). Jacob had already been given an intimation of the assailant’s supernaturalness by the effortless dislocation, and his concern to remain unknown (v. 29) was another hint of his supernatural origin. Later Scripture would record that no man can see God and live (cf. vv. 30, 31; Exodus 33:20).3 Jacob sensed the divine. Here Jacob,