Genesis 32:28

But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

In Context

27And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.

29Jacob asked him, Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:5Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

Genesis 25:31And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

Genesis 31:24And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Genesis 32:24He remained alone: and behold a man wrestled with him till morning.

Genesis 33:20And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

Numbers 13:16Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.

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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