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.”

²¹ and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see^(A) the Lord and many of them perish.^(B)

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

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