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28 Then he said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men, and you have won.”

29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”

He said, “Why do you ask what my name is?” Then he blessed him there.

30 Jacob named the place Peniel,[a] because he said, “I have seen God face-to-face, and my life has been spared.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:30 Peniel means face of God.