God said to him: Your name is Jacob. You will no longer be named Jacob, but Israel will be your name. So he was named Israel.
God further said to Abraham: As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I am making you the father of a multitude of nations.
Then the man said, “You shall no longer be named Jacob, but Israel, because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed.”
He took twelve stones, for the number of tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said: Israel shall be your name.
To this very day they continue to act according to their former customs, not venerating the Lord nor observing the statutes and regulations, the law and commandment, that the Lord enjoined on the descendants of Jacob, whom he had named Israel.
In the womb he supplanted his brother, and in his vigor he contended with a divine being;