I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with a blinding light so that they were unable to find the entrance.

When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.

That is why, to this day, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because He struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.