Genesis 32:30

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Genesis 32:28–32 · Berean Standard Bible

28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

29 And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

31 The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.

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Genesis 28:19

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

Judges 8:8

From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.

Judges 8:17

He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

1 Kings 12:25

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

Genesis 16:13

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

Exodus 24:10

and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

Exodus 24:11

But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.

Exodus 33:14

And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33:19

“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Exodus 33:20

But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

Exodus 33:21

The LORD continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock,

Exodus 33:22

and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.

Exodus 33:23

Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”

Numbers 12:8

I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

Deuteronomy 5:24

and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.

Deuteronomy 34:10

Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—

Judges 6:22

When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”

Judges 6:23

But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”

Judges 13:21

And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.

Judges 13:22

“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1:6

I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

Ephesians 1:17

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

Colossians 1:15

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

2 Timothy 1:10

And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,

Hebrews 11:27

By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.