22 Then during that night, Yacob got up and took his two wives and their two female slaves and his eleven sons and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok Stream. 23 After crossing the stream, he also sent across everything else that belonged to him. 24 Then Yacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until dawn.[ref] 25 When the man realised he wasn’t gaining on him, he touched Yacob on the socket of his hip so that it became dislocated as they wrestled with each other. 26 Then the man said, “Release me now, because it’s already dawning.”

“I won’t release you until you bless me,” Yacob responded. 27 “What’s your name?” the man asked.

“Yacob,” he replied.

28 “You won’t be called Yacob anymore,” the man said, “but you’ll be ‘Yisra’el’ (or ‘Israel’, which means ‘he struggled with God’), because you have struggled with God and with men, and you won.”[ref]

29 “Please tell me your name,” Yacob requested.[ref]

“Why would you want to know my name?” the man replied, then he blessed Yacob there.

30 So Yacob named the place ‘Penu’el’ (also spelt ‘Peni’el’, which means ‘God’s face’), because he said, “I saw God face to face, yet my life was preserved.” 31 And the sun rose above him as he passed through Penu’el, and he was limping because of his hip. 32 That’s why Israelis don’t eat the muscle of the tendon that is on the hip socket to this day, because the man touched the socket of Yacob’s hip on the muscle of the tendon.