Genesis 32:24-32 ▼

24 Then Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.

25 When he saw that he did not defeat him, he struck the socket of his hip, and Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

26 Then he said, |Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.| Jacob said, |I won't let you go unless you bless me.|

27 And he said to him, |What is your name?|He said, |Jacob.|

28 He said, |Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.|

29 Then Jacob asked him, |Please tell me your name.| But he said, |Why is it that you ask what my name is?| And he blessed him there.

30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: |For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.|

31 The sun rose on him as he passed by Peniel, and he limped because of his hip.

32 Therefore, to this day the children of Israel do not eat the tendon of the hip socket, because he struck Jacob’s hip socket near that tendon.