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Genesis 32:30

American Standard Version

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

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Genesis 32:30 in other translations

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Genesis 32:30 · World English Bible

Genesis 32:30 in context

  1. 28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
  2. 29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
  3. 30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
  4. 31And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh.
  5. 32Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.