Genesis 35:10

And God said to him, Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

In Context

9And God appeared to Jacob once more in Luz, when he came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and God blessed him.

11And God said to him, I am thy God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:5And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for I have made thee a father of many nations.

Genesis 32:27And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

1 Kings 18:31And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of Israel, as the Lord spoke to him, saying, Israel shall be thy name.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:7-16

Jacob's Arrival at Bethel. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.… Read the whole commentary →

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