Genèse 32:24-32

Louis Segond

²⁴Jacob demeura seul. Alors un homme lutta avec lui jusqu'au lever de l'aurore.

²⁵Voyant qu'il ne pouvait le vaincre, cet homme le frappa à l'emboîture de la hanche; et l'emboîture de la hanche de Jacob se démit pendant qu'il luttait avec lui.

²⁶Il dit: Laisse-moi aller, car l'aurore se lève. Et Jacob répondit: Je ne te laisserai point aller, que tu ne m'aies béni.

²⁷Il lui dit: Quel est ton nom? Et il répondit: Jacob.

²⁸Il dit encore: ton nom ne sera plus Jacob, mais tu seras appelé Israël; car tu as lutté avec Dieu et avec des hommes, et tu as été vainqueur.

²⁹Jacob l'interrogea, en disant: Fais-moi je te prie, connaître ton nom. Il répondit: Pourquoi demandes-tu mon nom? Et il le bénit là.

³⁰Jacob appela ce lieu du nom de Peniel: car, dit-il, j'ai vu Dieu face à face, et mon âme a été sauvée.

³¹Le soleil se levait, lorsqu'il passa Peniel. Jacob boitait de la hanche.

³²C'est pourquoi jusqu'à ce jour, les enfants d'Israël ne mangent point le tendon qui est à l'emboîture de la hanche; car Dieu frappa Jacob à l'emboîture de la hanche, au tendon.

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Genesis 32:24-32

New Living Translation

²⁴This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. ²⁵When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket. ²⁶Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

²⁷“What is your name?” the man asked.

He replied, “Jacob.”

²⁸“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. “From now on you will be called Israel,^[a] because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”

²⁹“Please tell me your name,” Jacob said.

“Why do you want to know my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

³⁰Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.” ³¹The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel,^[b] and he was limping because of the injury to his hip. ³²(Even today the people of Israel don’t eat the tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob’s hip.)

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Footnotes

32:28 Jacob sounds like the Hebrew words for “heel” and “deceiver.” Israel means “God fights.”
32:31 Hebrew Penuel, a variant spelling of Peniel.

Genesis 32:24-32

New International Version

²⁴So Jacob was left alone,^(A) and a man^(B) wrestled with him till daybreak. ²⁵When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip^(C) so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. ²⁶Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”^(D)

²⁷The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,”^(E) he answered.

²⁸Then the man said, “Your name^(F) will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,^[a]^(G) because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”^(H)

²⁹Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”^(I)

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?”^(J) Then he blessed^(K) him there.

³⁰So Jacob called the place Peniel,^[b] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face,^(L) and yet my life was spared.”

³¹The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,^[c]^(M) and he was limping because of his hip. ³²Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip,^(N) because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

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