Genesis 32:22–32

²²During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.^{j 23}He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD

²⁴Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.^{k 25}When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip. ²⁶Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

²⁷“What is your name?” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he replied.

²⁸“Your name will no longer be Jacob,”^l he said. “It will be Israel^A because you have struggled with God^m and with men and have prevailed.”

²⁹Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”

But he answered, “Why do you ask my name?”ⁿ And he blessed him there.

³⁰Jacob then named the place Peniel,^B “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”^{o 31}The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel^Cp—limping because of his hip. ³²That is why, still today, 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.^A