“And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.”
God said to him: your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel. So he named him Israel. The name-change confirmed at Bethel was given at Peniel in Genesis 32:28 — but here it is confirmed by God himself at the covenant place. The double confirmation of the new name at two separate sites is the covenant's emphasis on the permanence of the transformation. The application: the new identity given in the wrestling night is ratified at the altar. Peniel gives the name; Bethel confirms it.
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