Genesis Genesis 32:1-32
At the night-ford of the Jabbok, the grasper meets the One he cannot supplant. A wordplay triangle, a saturating face-motif, and the new name Israel — he strives with God and prevails, blessed and limping at the dawn.
Genesis 19:30-38
Two daughters in a mountain cave. Two nights of wine. Two nations born. The narrator of Genesis 19:30-38 uses Noah's seed-preservation vocabulary to show that Lot's daughters have misread Sodom as the Flood — and the rest of the canon spends nine hundred years answering that mistake, until Ruth the Moabitess walks onto a threshing floor and the man wakes.