Holy Scripture
Genesis 35:10
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 10) And God said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: and he called his name Israel. For a long time, his name was not given to him by an angel, but it was predicted that it would be given by God. Therefore, what is promised to happen there is taught to be fulfilled…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10And God said to him, Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.
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In context
8And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and was buried below Bethel under the oak; and Jacob called its name, The Oak of Mourning.
9And God appeared to Jacob once more in Luz, when he came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and God blessed him.
— Genesis 35:10 —
11And God said to him, I am thy God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
12And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I have given it to thee; and it shall come to pass that I will give this land also to thy seed after thee.