Genesis 32:30
And Jacob calls the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is delivered”;
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31and the sun rises on him when he has passed over Penuel, and he is halting on his thigh;
Cross References
Genesis 16:13And she calls the Name of YHWH who is speaking to her, “You [are], O God, my beholder”; for she said, “Even here have I looked behind my beholder?”
Genesis 35:9And God appears to Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesses him;
Exodus 33:14and He says, “My presence goes, and I have given rest to you.”
Numbers 12:8I speak with him mouth to mouth, || Even [by] an appearance, and not in riddles; And he beholds the form of YHWH attentively. Now why have you not been afraid || To speak against My servant—against Moses?”
Deuteronomy 34:10And there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses anymore, whom YHWH has known face to face,
Judges 8:8And he goes up there [to] Penuel, and speaks to them thus; and the men of Penuel answer him as the men of Succoth answered.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:25-32
Jacob Wrestles with an Angel. ( b. c. 1739.) 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no… Read the whole commentary →