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thigh
The thigh appears in Abraham's oath ritual and in the hip-socket strike during Jacob's wrestling at Peniel, origin of the Israelite dietary restriction on the thigh sinew.
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First mention
Genesis 24:2
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Genesis 24, 32Oath ritual
Scripture references
- Genesis 24:2
Place your hand under my thigh:
- Genesis 24:9
the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham, and swore...
- Genesis 32:26
who, seeing that he could not master him, struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.
- Genesis 32:33
That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh sinew which is at the hip socket: because he had struck Jacob at the hip socket on the thigh sinew.