28 “Your name will no longer be Jacob,”(A) He said. “It will be Israel[a] because you have struggled with God(B) and with men and have prevailed.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:28 In Hb, the name Israel sounds like “he struggled (with) God.”

10 God said to him:

Your name is Jacob;
you will no longer be named Jacob,
but your name will be Israel.(A)

So He named him Israel.

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