⁸ From there he went up to Peniel^[a](A) and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Sukkoth had.

Golden Calves at Bethel and Dan

²⁵ Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem^(A) in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.^[a](B)

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.