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

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:28 Lit he who strives with God, God strives
  2. Genesis 32:30 Lit the face of God
  3. Genesis 32:30 Lit soul