30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,[a] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face,(A) and yet my life was spared.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:30 Peniel means face of God.

30 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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10 “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes,(A) accept this gift(B) from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God,(C) now that you have received me favorably.(D)

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10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

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10 and saw(A) the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli,(B) as bright blue as the sky.(C)

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10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

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20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see(A) me and live.”

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20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

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23 Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”

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23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

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With him I speak face to face,
    clearly and not in riddles;(A)
    he sees the form of the Lord.(B)
Why then were you not afraid
    to speak against my servant Moses?”(C)

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With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

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22 When Gideon realized(A) that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”(B)

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22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

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22 “We are doomed(A) to die!” he said to his wife. “We have seen(B) God!”

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22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

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“Woe(A) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!(B) For I am a man of unclean lips,(C) and I live among a people of unclean lips,(D) and my eyes have seen(E) the King,(F) the Lord Almighty.”(G)

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Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

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