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Jabbok

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Jabbok, river, Jordan: see Zarqa Zarqa or Zerka (both: zär`kä)
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Note that in Hebrew, Jabbok makes a memorable three-way play on words with Jacob and wrestled.
But he repeats that test with variations on Jacob at the ford of Jabbok, Moses on the way down to Egypt, and the whole people at Sinai after the incident of the calf (and again and again in the wilderness): flashes of rage, passed on as terror to the people whose love he demands.
my mind went immediately to that scene in Genesis beside the ford of Jabbok.
 
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