Genesis 32
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Genesis 32:22-32

22During that night he got up and gathered his two wives, his two slaves and his eleven children and crossed at the shallow part of the Jabbok River.

23After he sent them across the stream, he sent everything else across.

24So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until dawn.

25When the man saw that he could not win against Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that it was dislocated as they wrestled.

26Then the man said, “Let me go; it’s almost dawn.” But Jacob answered, “I won’t let you go until you bless me.”

27So the man asked him, “What’s your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.

28The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel [He Struggles With God], because you have struggled with God and with men—and you have won.”

29Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” The man answered, “Why do you ask for my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

30So Jacob named that place Peniel [Face of God], because he said, “I have seen God face to face, but my life was saved.”

31The sun rose as he passed Penuel. He was limping because of his hip.

32(Therefore, even today the people of Israel do not eat the muscle of the thigh attached to the hip socket because God touched the socket of Jacob’s hip at the muscle of the thigh.)

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