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Genesis 32:30

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28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.Select Genesis 32:28

29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.Select Genesis 32:29

30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.Select Genesis 32:30

31And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.Select Genesis 32:31

32Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.Select Genesis 32:32

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32:30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

ASV

32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

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