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The patriarch Abraham, an emigrant from the Ur of the Chaldees, received from God the original promise of a vast posterity and of great blessing (Gen. 17:1–8); and, is therefore, properly regarded as the father of the Chosen People. The promises thus originally made were repeated to Isaac, Abraham’s son (Gen. 26:24), and to Jacob, Isaac’s son (Gen. 35:9–15). At Peniel, where Jacob wrestled with the angel (Gen. 32:28), his name was changed to Israel (Hebrew yis-raw-ale’) a word which means, power
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