Genesis 32:30 “So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face…”

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Iaakob called the name of the place, Peniel: for, saide he, I haue seene God face to face, and my life is preserued.

Darby Translation

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel — For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.

Young's Literal Translation

And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for 'I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'

Bible in Basic English

And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

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Cross references

“Penuel”

Genesis 28:19 Judges 8:8 Judges 8:17 1 Kings 12:25

Genesis 28:19 · BSB

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

Judges 8:8 · BSB

From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.

Judges 8:17 · BSB

He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

1 Kings 12:25 · BSB

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

“I have”

Numbers 12:8 Isaiah 6:5 Genesis 16:13 Deuteronomy 5:24 Exodus 33:19–23 John 1:18

Numbers 12:8 · BSB

I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

Isaiah 6:5 · BSB

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

Genesis 16:13 · BSB

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me, ” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

Deuteronomy 5:24 · BSB

and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.

Exodus 33:19–23 · BSB

“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

John 1:18 · BSB

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

31The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Read Genesis 32