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RBT Translation:

And Heel is calling-out the name of the Standing-place Face of El1037 for I have seen elohim, faces toward faces, and my breath has been snatched away.1038

LITV Translation:
And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered.
ESV Translation:
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Jacob asked and said, Tell me thy name; and he said, Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there.

Footnotes

1037

Strong’s #6439, Penuel. Face of El, or facing El. From the “obsolete” singular form of face.

1038

Strong’s #5337, natsal. To strip or snatch away. See its use in Gen. 31:9, 31:16, 32:11,30.