When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
Then the man said, "Let me go for it is daybreak."
But Jacob replied, "I'll not let you go unless you bless me."
The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob" he answered.
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome."
Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying
It is because I saw GOD face to face
and yet my life was spared.
The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel and he was limping because of his hip.
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