For I Jacob that speak unto you, I am also Israel, an angel of God and a ruling spirit, and Abraham and Isaac were pre-created before any work.
2And I Jacob, that am called by men Jacob, yet my name is Israel, that am called by God Israel, a man seeing God, for I am the first-begotten of every living thing that is quickened by God.
3And I, when I was coming from Mesopotamia of Syria, Uriel the angel of God came forth and said that I had come down to earth and tabernacled among men, and that I was called by name Jacob.
4He envied me and fought with me, and wrestled with me, saying that his name and the name of the angel that is before all should have precedence of my name.
5And I told him his name, and in what order he is among the sons of God, saying: Art not thou Uriel, the eighth from me, and I am Israel, an archangel of the power of the Lord, and a captain of captains of thousands among the sons of God? Am I not Israel, the first minister before the face of God? And I called upon my God by the inextinguishable name.
6For I have read in the tablets of heaven all that shall befall you and your sons.
7And Jacob was greater than man, he who supplanted his brother, and declared: I read in the tablets of heaven that I was a captain of captains of thousands of the host of the Lord, and had of old the name of Israel, which fact I recognize while doing service in a body, being reminded of it by the archangel Uriel.