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‘What is your name? ’ the man asked. ‘Jacob,’ he replied.
Then he said to Jacob, ‘Let me go, for it is daybreak.’ But Jacob said, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.’
‘Your name will no longer be Jacob,’ he said. ‘It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.’
God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.’ So he named him Israel.
The boy’s mother said to Elisha, ‘As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.’ So he got up and followed her.
Jabez called out to the God of Israel, ‘If only you would bless me, extend my border, let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not experience pain’. And God granted his request.
Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.