Genesis 32:9-12
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9 And Jacob said, (A)“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who (B)said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’ 10 (C)I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for (D)I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. 12 But (E)you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
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Genesis 32:30
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30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,[a] saying, “For (A)I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
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- Genesis 32:30 Peniel means the face of God
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