Genesis 32:2

2 Then Jacob said when he saw them, “This is God’s ¹camp.” So he named that place ²^aMahanaim.

Genesis 32:9

9 And Jacob said, “O ^aGod of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘^bReturn to your land and to your kin, and I will ¹prosper you,’

Genesis 32:22-30

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22 And he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two servant-women and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the ^aJabbok. 23 And he took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.

Jacob Wrestles with God

24 Then Jacob was left alone, and a man ^awrestled with him until the ¹breaking of dawn. 25 And he saw that he had not prevailed against him, so he touched the socket of his thigh; and so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is ¹breaking.” But he said, “^aI will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 ^aThen he said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but ¹Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.” 29 Then ^aJacob 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 ¹Peniel, for he said, “^aI have seen God face to face, yet my ²life has been delivered.”