Genesis 32:30
So Jacob named the place Peniel, which means ‘God’s face’, saying “I looked directly at God, but I did not die because of doing that.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
31The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of what had happened to his hip.
Cross References
Genesis 16:13Then Hagar realized that the angel was really Yahweh, so she said to herself, “◄It is difficult to believe that I have really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me!/Have I really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me?►” [RHQ] So she called him ‘Yahweh, the one who sees me’.
Genesis 35:9After Jacob and his family returned from Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia, while they were still at Bethel, God appeared to Jacob again and blessed him.
Exodus 33:14Yahweh replied, “I will go with you, and I will give you inner peace.”
Numbers 12:8So I talk to him face-to-face. I speak to him ◄clearly/using words that he will understand easily►, not using parables. He has even seen what I look like. So you should be afraid to criticize my servant Moses!”
Deuteronomy 34:10Since the time that Moses lived, there has never been a prophet in Israel like him. Yahweh spoke to him face-to-face/directly.
Judges 8:8From there, Gideon and his 300 men went to Peniel and asked for food there, but the people gave him the same answer.
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 →