Genesis 32:23-32

New International Version

²³ After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.^{(A) 24} So Jacob was left alone,^(B) and a man^(C) wrestled with him till daybreak. ²⁵ When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip^(D) so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. ²⁶ Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”^(E)

²⁷ The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,”^(F) he answered.

²⁸ Then the man said, “Your name^(G) will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,^[a](H) because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”^(I)

²⁹ Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”^(J)

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?”^(K) Then he blessed^(L) him there.

³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel,^[b] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face,^(M) and yet my life was spared.”

³¹ The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,^[c](N) and he was limping because of his hip. ³² Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip,^(O) because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.