Genesis 32:22-32 - Jacob Wrestles With God
22 and rose up the same night and took his two wives and his two maidens and his eleven sons, and went over the ford Jabbok. 23 And he took them and sent them over the river, and sent over that he had,
24 and tarried behind; himself alone. And there wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he smote him under the thigh, and the sinew of Jacob's thigh shrank as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, "Let me go, for the day breaketh." And he said, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."
27 And he said unto him, "What is thy name?" He answered, "Jacob."
28 And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed." 29 And Jacob asked him, saying, "Tell me thy name." And he said, "Wherefore dost thou ask after my name?" And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face, and yet is my life reserved." 31 And as he went over Peniel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 Wherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank under the thigh, unto this day: because that he smote Jacob under the thigh in the sinew that shrank.