Thematic Bible: Name given to jacob
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"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name." So God named him Israel.
To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.