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28 Then he said, (A)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[a] for (B)you have striven with God and (C)with men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, (D)“Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,[b] saying, “For (E)I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:28 Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
  2. Genesis 32:30 Peniel means the face of God