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Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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Genesis 32:30 in other translations
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
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In context
27 And he said to him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name: And he said, why [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? and he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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 shrunk, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrunk.
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