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15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

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25 and sent a message by the prophet Nathan, so he named him Jedidiah[a] because of the Lord.

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  1. 12.25 That is, beloved of the Lord

No longer shall your name be Abram,[a] but your name shall be Abraham,[b] for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.(A)

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  1. 17.5 That is, exalted ancestor
  2. 17.5 That is, ancestor of a multitude

28 Then the man[a] said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[b] for you have striven with God and with humans[c] and have prevailed.”(A)

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  1. 32.28 Heb he
  2. 32.28 That is, the one who strives with God or God strives
  3. 32.28 Or with divine and human beings