Thematic Bible: Name given to jacob
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He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
To this day they do what they did before: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;