Genesis 32:30

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And Jacob calls the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is delivered”;

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

GNV

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

JPS32:31

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

LXXE32:31

And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.

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WLC32:31

וַיִּקְרָ֧א יַעֲקֹ֛ב שֵׁ֥ם הַמָּק֖וֹם פְּנִיאֵ֑ל כִּֽי־רָאִ֤יתִי אֱלֹהִים֙ פָּנִ֣ים אֶל־פָּנִ֔ים וַתִּנָּצֵ֖ל נַפְשִֽׁי׃KJV:Gen.32.30

LXX-Br32:31

Καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἰακὼβ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου, εἶδος Θεοῦ· εἶδον γὰρ Θεὸν πρόσωπον πρὸς πρὸσωπον, καὶ ἐσώθη μου ἡ ψυχή.

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• Exodus 24:10–11and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
• Isaiah 6:5Then 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.”
• Numbers 12:8I 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?”
• Genesis 16:13So 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 5:24and 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.
• John 1:18No 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.
• Exodus 33:19–23“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…
• Hebrews 11:27By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.
• Exodus 33:14And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
• 2 Timothy 1:10And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
• Ephesians 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
• 2 Corinthians 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• 2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Judges 8:17He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
• 1 Kings 12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
• Judges 13:21–22And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD. “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”

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