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27 Then the man asked, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

28 (A) The man said, “From now on, your name will no longer be Jacob. You will be called Israel,[a] because you have wrestled with God and with men, and you have won.”

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Footnotes

  1. 32.28 Israel: In Hebrew one meaning of “Israel” is “a man who wrestles with God.”

27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,”(A) he answered.

28 Then the man said, “Your name(B) will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a](C) because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”(D)

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  1. Genesis 32:28 Israel probably means he struggles with God.