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Genesis 32:29-32 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

29. Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”But He answered, “Why do you ask My name? ” And He blessed him there.

30. Jacob then named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “and I have been delivered.”

31. The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel — limping because of his hip.

32. That is why, to this day, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because He struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.

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