And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
WEB
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
YLT
And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for `I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'
DBT
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel — For I have seenGod face to face, and my life has been preserved.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)