No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. ... Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied. Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.