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Genesis 32:30-32
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30 Jacob then asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He answered, “Why do you ask for my name?” With that, he blessed him. 31 Jacob named the place Peniel,[a] “because I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”(A)

32 At sunrise, as he left Penuel, Jacob limped along because of his hip.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:31 Peniel: a variant of the word Penuel (v. 32), the name of a town on the north bank of the Jabbok in Gilead (Jgs 8:8–9, 17; 1 Kgs 12:25). The name is explained as meaning “the face of God,” peni-’el. Yet my life has been spared: see note on 16:13.
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