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Genesis 32:30

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

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  1. Genesis 32:28

    And 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.

  2. Genesis 32:29

    And 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.

  3. Genesis 32:31

    And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

  4. Genesis 32:32

    Therefore 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.

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