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If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the dread of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered the decision last night."

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see, God is witness between you and me."

The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the dread of his father Isaac.

Now Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your kin, and I will prosper you,'

Then He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed."

So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been delivered."

And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who are these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

And Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.

Please take my blessing which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have everything." Thus he urged him, and he took it.

Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."

Then they journeyed on, and there was a terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

And he built an altar there and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.

Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

And God said to him,"Your name is Jacob;Your name shall no longer be called Jacob,But Israel shall be your name."Thus He called his name Israel.

God also said to him,"I am God Almighty;Be fruitful and multiply;A nation and an assembly of nations shall come from you,And kings shall come forth from your loins.

Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.

There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?"