6. The messengers came back to Jacob and said, “We talked to your brother Esau and he’s on his way to meet you. But he has four hundred men with him.”
21. So his gifts went before him while he settled down for the night in the camp.
26. The man said, “Let me go; it’s daybreak.”Jacob said, “I’m not letting you go ’til you bless me.”
27. The man said, “What’s your name?”He answered, “Jacob.”
28. The man said, “But no longer. Your name is no longer Jacob. From now on it’s Israel (God-Wrestler); you’ve wrestled with God and you’ve come through.”
29. Jacob asked, “And what’s your name?”The man said, “Why do you want to know my name?” And then, right then and there, he blessed him.
30. Jacob named the place Peniel (God’s Face) because, he said, “I saw God face-to-face and lived to tell the story!”