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26 and said, “Let me go, because the dawn has come.”[a]

“I won’t let you go,” Jacob[b] replied, “unless you bless me.”

27 Then the man[c] asked him, “What’s your name?”

“Jacob,” he responded

28 “Your name won’t be[d] Jacob anymore,” the man[e] replied, “but Israel, because you exerted yourself against both God and men, and you’ve emerged victorious.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:26 Lit. has ascended.
  2. Genesis 32:26 Lit. he
  3. Genesis 32:27 Lit. Then he
  4. Genesis 32:28 Lit. be called
  5. Genesis 32:28 Lit. anymore,” he