to you the
revelations he received after he left that country with his four wives
and his children. When he came to the brook Jabbok, sending over all
his family before him, he stopped back, and the Lord condescended to
give him a new revelation. An angel came down, and Jacob and this
person laid hold of each other, the same as men do occasionally now,
to try each other's strength, in what is termed wrestling. These two
persons wrestled together all night long. The angel did not see proper
to take any advantage of Jacob by miracle, but he wrestled with him as
one man would another; and it seems that neither of them overcame the
other. The angel did not succeed in throwing Jacob to the ground,
neither did Jacob succeed in throwing the angel to theground; but
after contending together all night, the angel at last put forth his
finger and touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh and lamed him a little,
and by this means was enabled to overcome him. After being thus lamed,
Jacob found that he had been wrestling with an angel of God, and, said
he, “I will not let thee go unless thou bless me;” and God,
through the mouth of that angel, gave to him the same great and
glorious promises than he had given to his father, and also blessed
him as a prince, because he had power to wrestle with an angel all
night and prevailed with him.

Some suppose that this was the first conversion of Jacob; but, be this
as it may, Jacob, prior to this time, had many great revelations from
God. After wrestling