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.
In other versions
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, `said he', I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
ASV
And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.
BBE
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel -- For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.
DBY
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel{Peniel means "face of God."}: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
WEB
And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for `I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'
YLT
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
ENG
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
WBT
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
BSB
In context
28And 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.
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.
30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32Therefore 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.
Cross-references
People in this verse
- Israel