Genesis 32:29

Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.

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In The King James Version

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

In Context

28And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

30And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

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Cross References

Genesis 27:28May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

Genesis 28:13And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

Genesis 35:10Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.

Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.

1 Kings 18:31And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:

1 Chronicles 1:34And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:25-32

Jacob Wrestles with an Angel. ( b. c. 1739.) 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no… Read the whole commentary →

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