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28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. Your name will now be Israel,[a] because you have wrestled with God and with people, and you have won.”

29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”

But the man said, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

30 So Jacob named that place Peniel,[b] saying, “I have seen God face to face, but my life was saved.”

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Footnotes

  1. 32:28 Israel This name means “he wrestles with God.”
  2. 32:30 Peniel This name means “the face of God.”

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