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30 En Jakob noemde die plek Pniël (= 'gezicht van God'). "Want," zei hij, "ik heb oog in oog met God gestaan en toch ben ik in leven gebleven."

31 De zon kwam boven hem op toen hij bij Pniël overstak. Hij was kreupel aan één heup. 32 En tot op vandaag eten de Israëlieten de spier niet die op het heupgewricht ligt, omdat Hij Jakob op het heupgewricht, op de heupspier, heeft geslagen.

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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.”

31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,[b](B) and he was limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip,(C) because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:30 Peniel means face of God.
  2. Genesis 32:31 Hebrew Penuel, a variant of Peniel

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

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

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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30 于是,雅各给那地方起名叫毘努伊勒,意思说:“我面对面看见了 神,我的性命仍得保全。” 31 雅各经过毘努伊勒的时候,太阳刚刚出来,照在他身上。他因为大腿的伤,跛脚行走。 32 因此,以色列人直到现在都不吃大腿窝上的筋,因为那人在雅各的大腿窝上的筋打了一下。

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