Thematic Bible: Name given to jacob
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He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed."
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel.
To this day they do according to the earlier customs: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances or the law, or the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel;