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Genesis 32:30

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30So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,7 saying, “For mI have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

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Footnotes

  1. 7Peniel means the face of God

Cross references

  1. mch. 16:13; Ex. 24:10, 11; Deut. 5:24; Judg. 6:22; 13:22; [Ex. 33:20; Isa. 6:5]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Jacob then named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”

NLTNew Living Translation

Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel which means “I have seen God face to face and my life was spared.”

KJV 1900King James Version

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