Genesis 32:30 meaning and explanation
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Genesis 32:30, Berean Standard Bible
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Jacob has just wrestled through the night with a mysterious man who renames him Israel and blesses him. Naming the place Peniel, meaning “face of God,” Jacob marvels that he saw God face to face and survived, since seeing God was widely understood to mean death.
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