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God Blesses Jacob at Bethel

9-11 (A)(B) After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying:

I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel[a] instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings. 12 I will give you the land that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family forever.

13 After God had gone,

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  1. 35.9-11 Israel: See the note at 32.28.

11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty[a];(A) be fruitful and increase in number.(B) A nation(C) and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.(D) 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.(E)(F) 13 Then God went up from him(G) at the place where he had talked with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:11 Hebrew El-Shaddai