Jacob

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Scripture references

• Genesis 25:26

  his brother was born, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so they named him Jacob.

• Genesis 25:27

  Jacob on the other hand was a quiet man, staying at home among the tents.

• Genesis 25:33

  First give me your oath'; he gave him his oath and sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, 'Look, my brother Esau is hairy, while I am smooth-skinned.

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau your first-born; I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of the game I have brought and then give me your soul's blessing.'

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went closer to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, 'The voice is Jacob's voice but the arms are the arms of Esau!'

• Genesis 27:27

  He went closer and kissed his father, who sniffed the smell of his clothes. Then he blessed him,

• Genesis 27:42

  your brother Esau means to take revenge and kill you.

• Genesis 27:43

  go at once and take refuge with my brother Laban in Haran.

• Genesis 28:5

  Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and Jacob went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramaean and brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 28:10

  Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

• Genesis 28:12

  He had a dream: there was a ladder, planted on the ground with its top reaching to heaven; and God's angels were going up and down on it.

• Genesis 28:13

  And there was Yahweh, standing beside him and saying, 'I, Yahweh, am the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac.

• Genesis 28:16

  Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, 'Truly, Yahweh is in this place and I did not know!'

• Genesis 28:19

  He named the place Bethel, but before that the town had been called Luz.

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob then made this vow, 'If God remains with me and keeps me safe on this journey I am making...

• Genesis 29:1

  Continuing his journey, Jacob reached the Land of the Easterners.

• Genesis 29:10

  As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, his uncle Laban's daughter, with his uncle Laban's flock, he went up and, rolling the stone off the mouth of the well, watered his uncle Laban's sheep.

• Genesis 29:11

  Jacob then kissed Rachel and burst into tears.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel. So his answer was, 'I shall work for you for seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.'

• Genesis 29:20

  So Jacob worked for seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like a few days because he loved her so much.

• Genesis 29:23

  But when night came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob agreed and, when he had finished the week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

• Genesis 29:30

  So Jacob slept with Rachel too, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He worked for Laban for another seven years.

• Genesis 30:2

  This made Jacob angry with Rachel, and he retorted, 'Am I in the position of God, who has denied you motherhood?'

• Genesis 30:4

  So she gave him her slave-girl Bilhah as concubine. Jacob slept with her,

• Genesis 30:9

  Now Leah, seeing that she had ceased to bear children, took her slave-girl Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as concubine.

• Genesis 30:16

  When Jacob came back from the fields that night, Leah went out to meet him and said, 'You must come to me, for I have hired you at the price of my son's mandrakes.' So he slept with her that night.

• Genesis 30:25

  When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Release me and let me go home to my own country.

• Genesis 30:31

  Laban said, 'How much am I to pay you?' Jacob replied, 'You need not pay me anything. I shall change my mind and go on tending your flock, if you do this one thing for me.

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob then got fresh shoots from poplar, almond and plane trees, and peeled them in white strips, laying bare the white part of the shoots.

• Genesis 30:43

  Thus the man grew extremely rich, and came to own large flocks, men and women slaves, camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 31:3

  Yahweh said to Jacob, 'Go back to the land of your ancestors, where you were born, and I shall be with you.'

• Genesis 31:7

  and that your father has tricked me, changing my wages ten times over, and yet God has not allowed him to harm me.

• Genesis 31:11

  In the dream the angel of God called to me, 'Jacob!' I said, 'Here I am.'

• Genesis 31:17

  Forthwith, Jacob put his children and his wives on camels,

• Genesis 31:18

  and drove off all his livestock -- with all the possessions he had acquired, the livestock belonging to him which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram -- to go to his father Isaac in Canaan.

• Genesis 31:36

  Then Jacob lost his temper and took Laban to task.

• Genesis 31:41

  It was like this for the twenty years I spent in your household. Fourteen years I slaved for you for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, since you changed my wages ten times over.

• Genesis 31:45

  Jacob then took a stone and set it up as a memorial.

• Genesis 31:53

  Then Jacob swore by the Kinsman of his father Isaac.

• Genesis 32:3

  and on seeing them he said, 'This is God's camp,' and he named the place Mahanaim.

• Genesis 32:8

  Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people with him, and the flocks and cattle, into two camps,

• Genesis 32:10

  Jacob said, 'God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh who told me, "Go back to your native land and I will be good to you,"'

• Genesis 32:23

  That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

• Genesis 32:25

  And Jacob was left alone. Then someone wrestled with him until daybreak

• Genesis 32:28

  He said, 'No longer are you to be called Jacob, but Israel since you have shown your strength against God and men and have prevailed.'

• Genesis 32:31

  Jacob named the place Peniel, 'Because I have seen God face to face,' he said, 'and have survived.'

• Genesis 33:3

  He himself went ahead of them and bowed to the ground seven times, until he reached his brother.

• Genesis 33:10

  Jacob protested, 'No, if I have won your favour, please accept the gift I offer, for in fact I have come into your presence as into the presence of God, since you have received me kindly.

• Genesis 33:17

  but Jacob made his way to Succoth, where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was given the name of Succoth.

• Genesis 33:18

  Jacob arrived safely at the town of Shechem in Canaanite territory, on his return from Paddan-Aram. He encamped opposite the town

• Genesis 33:19

  and for one hundred pieces of silver he bought from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

• Genesis 33:20

  There he erected an altar which he called 'El, God of Israel'.

• Genesis 34:5

  Meanwhile, Jacob had heard how his daughter Dinah had been dishonoured, but since his sons were out in the countryside with his livestock, Jacob said nothing until they came back.

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, 'You have done me an ill turn by bringing me into bad odour with the people of the region, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have few men, whereas they will unite against me to defeat me and destroy me and my family.'

• Genesis 35:2

  Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, 'Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you; cleanse yourselves, and change your clothes.'

• Genesis 35:4

  They gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession, and the earrings that they were wearing. Jacob buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.

• Genesis 35:7

  he built an altar there and named the place El-Bethel, since it was there that God had appeared to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

• Genesis 35:10

  God said to him, 'Your name is Jacob, but from now on you will be called not Jacob but Israel.' Thus he came by the name Israel.

• Genesis 35:11

  God said to him, 'I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will descend from you, and kings will issue from your loins.'

• Genesis 35:14

  Jacob raised a monument at the spot where he had spoken to him, a standing-stone, on which he made a libation and poured oil.

• Genesis 35:15

  Jacob named the place Bethel where God had spoken to him.

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob raised a monument on her grave, that same monument of Rachel's Tomb which is there today.

• Genesis 35:29

  when he breathed his last. He died and was gathered to his people, an old man who had enjoyed his full span of life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

• Genesis 36:7

  For they had acquired too much to live together. The land in which they were at that time could not support them both because of their livestock.

• Genesis 37:1

  But Jacob settled in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 37:3

  Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a decorated tunic made for him.

• Genesis 37:10

  He told his father and brothers, and his father scolded him. 'A fine dream to have!' he said to him. 'Are all of us then, myself, your mother and your brothers, to come and bow to the ground before you?'

• Genesis 37:11

  His brothers held it against him, but his father pondered the matter.

• Genesis 37:13

  Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Your brothers are with the flock at Shechem, aren't they? Come, I am going to send you to them.'

• Genesis 37:33

  He recognised it and cried, 'My son's tunic! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph has been torn to pieces!'

• Genesis 37:34

  Tearing his clothes and putting sackcloth round his waist, Jacob mourned his son for many days.

• Genesis 37:35

  All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. 'No,' he said, 'I will go down to Sheol in mourning and join my son.' Thus his father wept for him.

• Genesis 43:6

  Then Israel said, 'Why did you bring this misery on me by telling the man you had another brother?'

• Genesis 43:11

  Then their father Israel said to them, 'If it must be so, then do this: take some of the country's best products in your baggage and take them to the man as a gift: some balsam, some honey, gum tragacanth, resin, pistachio nuts and almonds.

• Genesis 43:13

  Take your brother, and go back to the man.

• Genesis 43:14

  May El Shaddai move the man to be kind to you, and allow you to bring back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I must be bereaved, bereaved I must be.'

• Genesis 44:27

  So your servant our father said to us, "You know that my wife bore me two children.

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one from me too and any harm comes to him, you will send my white head down to Sheol with grief."

• Genesis 44:31

  and your servants will have sent your servant our father's white head down to Sheol with grief.

• Genesis 45:26

  they gave him this report, 'Joseph is still alive. He is at this moment governor of all Egypt!' But he was as one stunned, for he did not believe them.

• Genesis 45:27

  However, when they told him all Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the waggons that Joseph had sent to fetch him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived,

• Genesis 45:28

  and Israel said, 'That is enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die.'