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

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:31 Hebrew Penuel, a variant of Peniel

31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

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