Genesis 32:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the face of God], saying, For I have seen God face to face, and my life is spared and not snatched away.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Jacob named the place Peniel, “because I’ve seen God face-to-face, and my life has been saved.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 32:30 Cross References

Genesis 16:13

So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “Thou art a God of seeing”; for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”

Genesis 28:19

He called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 35:9

God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

1 Kings 12:25

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and dwelt there; and he went out from there and built Penuel.

Exodus 33:14

And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 9:5

For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Galatians 1:6

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel—

Ephesians 1:17

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

Deuteronomy 34:10

And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,

Deuteronomy 5:24

and you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; we have this day seen God speak with man and man still live.

Colossians 1:15

He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;

2 Timothy 1:10

and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

Joshua 5:13

When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”

Judges 13:17

And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”

Judges 13:18

And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”

Judges 8:17

And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

Judges 8:8

And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.