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.