IN further token of his gratitude to God for his ennobling experience at Peniel, Israel insisted that his retainers renounce the "strange" (literally "foreign") gods (see Gen. 35:2) to which some of them had turned and to accept exclusively the Deity so often described by his own name, "the God of Israel" (see Ex.
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