Bible Verses About Israel

and Ya'akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When he saw that he did not defeat Ya'akov, he struck Ya'akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him.

The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya'akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me."

The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya'akov."

Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya'akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed."

Ya'akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there.

Ya'akov called the place P'ni-El [face of God], "Because I have seen God face to face, yet my life is spared."

As the sun rose upon him he went on past P'ni-El, limping at the hip.

This is why, to this day, the people of Isra'el do not eat the thigh muscle that passes along the hip socket - because the man struck Ya'akov's hip at its socket.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel; in the strength of his manhood he fought with God.

Yes, he fought with an angel and won; he wept and pleaded with him. Then at Beit-El he found him, and there he would [later] speak with us