1. Nocturne
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, Leah and Rachel and his two women servants, Bilhah, Zilpah and his eleven sons, (Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulum, Joseph) and his daughter, Dinah and passed over the ford Jabbok.
He sent his family across the river, sent over all that he had. All the paraphernalia of many years of clever living.
The water flowed past them.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Jacob was wrestling in the arms of a stranger
Genesis, adapted by the composer
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