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256 leave unless thou bless me." And he said to him: "What is thy name?" And he said: "Jacob." So he said: "Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob; but rather ‘Israel’, for thou hast striven with both Elohim and men, and prevailed." And Jacob asked him, saying: "Do tell me your name!" And he said: "Wherefor dost thou ask for (the Face of El) For I have seen Elohim face to face and my life was preserved. And it was sunrise when he crossed at The first reference in the Bible to an Angel of the Lord, in chapter 16 of Genesis, relates an event in the time of Jacob's grandfather Abraham. Abraham and his wife Sarah were getting old—he in his mid eighties, she ten years younger; and still they had no offspring. Abraham had just fulfilled the mission for which he had been ordered to Ca- naan—to ward off attacks on the Spaceport in the Sinai: the War of the Kings (described in chapter 14 of Genesis). The grateful Lord Yahweh Appeared to Abram in a vision, saying: "Fear not Abram; I am thy shield; thy reward shall be exceedingly great." But the childless Abraham (still called by his Sumerian name Abram) responded bitterly: "My Lord Yahweh, what DIVINE ENCOUNTERS my name?" And he blessed him there. And Jacob named the place Peni-El Peniel, limping on his thigh.