Jacob in the Bible
Meaning: that supplants, undermines; the heelpar
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After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand.
When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,
Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.
He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.
Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to Jacob and sold his birthright to him.
Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,
Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.
So Jacob went and got the two young goats, and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared a delicious dish of food [with a delightful aroma], the kind his father loved [to eat].
Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them.
Then she handed the delicious food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.
Jacob replied to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me.”
"How did you get it so quickly, my son?" Isaac asked. Jacob responded, ""because the LORD your God made me successful."
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not?”
So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
Then he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" "I am," Jacob replied.
Then he said, “Serve me, and let me eat some of my son’s game so that I can bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.
After this, Jacob's father Isaac told him, "Come closer and kiss me, my son."
So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying, "Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the Lord has blessed.
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt.
So he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?
But Isaac replied to Esau, “Listen carefully: I have made Jacob your lord and master; I have given him all his brothers and relatives as servants; and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then, can I do for you, my son?”
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.
So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women.
Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: “Don’t take a wife from the Canaanite women.
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.”
And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.
Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.
And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, "I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I'm Isaac's God, too. I'm giving you and your descendants the ground on which you're sleeping.
When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it
Then Jacob made a vow:
Jacob resumed his journey
Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from?”
“We’re from Haran,” they answered.
“Do you know Laban grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked them.
They answered, “We know him.”
“Is he well?” Jacob asked.
“Yes,” they said, “and here is his daughter Rachel, coming with his sheep.”
Then Jacob said, “Look, it is still broad daylight. It’s not time for the animals to be gathered. Water the flock, then go out and let them graze.”
As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep,
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.
And Jacob will announce to Rachel that he is her father's brother, and that he is Rebekah's son; and she will run and announce to her father.
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.
Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”
After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
And Laban will say to Jacob, Because thou art my brother shalt thou serve me gratuitously? announce to me what thy reward.
Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed. I want to sleep with
That evening, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
But in the morning [when Jacob awoke], it was Leah [who was with him]! And he said to Laban, “What is this that you have done to me? Did I not work for you [for seven years] for Rachel? Why have you deceived and betrayed me [like this]?”
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!”
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children
So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
Rachel’s slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
But Leah answered, “Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” So Rachel said, “Jacob shall sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.
God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland.
So Jacob said to him, “You know what I have done for you and your herds.
Laban asked, “What should I give you?”
And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.
Jacob responded, "You don't have to give me anything. Just do this for me: Let me tend your flock again and watch over it. Let me walk among your flocks today and remove every speckled or spotted sheep, along with every black lamb, and let me do the same with the speckled and spotted goats. These will be my wages.
He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Jacob, meanwhile, was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flock.
Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.
Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.
Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.
As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.”
And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same.
And Jehovah will say to Jacob, Turn back to the land of thy fathers, and to thy lineage; and I will be with thee.
Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were.
In that dream the Angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
Then Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels.
And Jacob deceived
Jacob fled, taking everything that he owned. He got up, crossed the river, and headed to the hill country of Gilead.
On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him at Mount Gilead.
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his brothers also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and taken my daughters away like prisoners of war!
I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me: ‘Watch yourself. Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live!
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.
Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them.
Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime?” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?
Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?
So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.
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holy Boldness » Exemplified » jacob
Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » jacob
Communion with God » Exemplified » jacob
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » jacob
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The Covenant » Made with » jacob
Covetousness » Instances of » Laban » Deceiving » jacob
Covetousness » Instances of » jacob » In defrauding laban of his flocks and herds
Covetousness » Instances of » jacob » In defrauding esau of his, father's blessing
Covetousness » Instances of » jacob » In buying esau's birthright
the Death of saints » Exemplified » jacob
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jacob » Descendants of
jacob » Moves to egypt
jacob » Son of isaac, and the twin brother of esau
jacob » God confirms the covenant of abraham to
jacob » Summary of his character » Prayerful
jacob » Summary of his character » Became religious
jacob » Esau seeks to kill, escapes to padan-aram
jacob » Summary of his character » Disciplined by affliction
jacob » Obtains esau's birthright for just one bowl of stew
jacob » Fradulently obtains his father's blessing
jacob » Serves fourteen years for leah and rachel
jacob » Sojourns in haran with his uncle, laban
jacob » Sends to egypt to buy corn (grain)
jacob » Journey » Rachel » death
jacob » Gives the land of the amorites to joseph
jacob » Summary of his character » Reaped the result of his own sin
jacob » Summary of his character » Naturally, crafty
jacob » Summary of his character » Deceptive
jacob » Name of, changed to "israel,"
jacob » His love for benjamin
jacob » The land of goshen assigned to
jacob » Summary of his character » Affectionate
jacob » Summary of his character » A man of faith
jacob » Summary of his character » Industrious
jacob » His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons » Issachar
jacob » His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons » Joseph
jacob » His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons » Dan
jacob » Journeys to shalem, where he purchase a parcel of ground from hamor and erects an altar
jacob » Exacts a promise from joseph to bury him with his forefathers
jacob » Charges his sons to bury him in the field of machpelah
jacob » Sharp practice of, with the flocks and herds of laban
jacob » His benediction upon joseph and his two sons
jacob » List of the names of his twelve sons
jacob » His grief over the loss of joseph
jacob » Hears that joseph is still alive
jacob » His vision of the ladder
jacob » Meets joseph
jacob » His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons » Judah
jacob » The list of his children and grandchildren who went down into egypt
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jacob » The well of
(Now Jesus' disciples had gone away to town to buy some food). Therefore, the Samaritan woman asked Him, "Why is it that you, being a Jew, would ask a Samaritan woman [like me] for a drink?" (For Jews do not have any fellowship with Samaritans). [Note: The reason for this stemmed from longstanding religious, cultural and ethnic prejudices]. Jesus answered her, "If you [only] knew the [real] gift of God, and who it is that said to you, '[Please], give me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." The woman [then] said to Him, "Sir, you do not have anything to draw [water] with, and the well is deep. Where will you get that living water? noon if Jewish time were meant]. Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well? He himself and his sons and cattle [all] drank from it." Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never get thirsty [again]. For the water I will give him will become in him [i.e., in his spirit] a spring of water, bubbling up and producing never ending life." [See John 7:38]. The woman [then] said to Him, "Sir, [please] give me [some of] that water, so that I do not get thirsty [again], or have to come all the way here to draw [water]." Jesus replied to her, "Go call your husband and [then] come here." The woman said to Him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right when you said, 'I do not have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not [really] your husband. So, you have told the truth." [Then] the woman said to Jesus, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain [i.e., Mt. Gerizim, which was visible from where they were sitting]; but you say that Jerusalem is the place where people should worship [God]." miles away from Cana]. Jesus replied to her, "[My dear] woman, believe me [when I tell you], the time will come when you people will not worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You [Samaritans] do not [really] know what you worship; we [Jews] know what we worship because salvation is from the Jews [i.e., through Jewish prophets, Jewish Scriptures and a Jewish Messiah]. But the time will come, and is now [actually] here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [i.e., from the heart] and truth [i.e., according to God's revealed will], for these are the people whom the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." [Then] the woman said to Jesus, "I know that Messiah is coming ([He is] the One who is called Christ). And when He does come, He will tell us everything." Jesus replied to her, "I, who am speaking to you, am [the Messiah]." Just about then Jesus' disciples returned [from town], and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. [Note: It was not customary for a Jewish male to engage a woman in extended conversation in that day, much less a stranger, and certainly not a Samaritan], yet no one said [to Him], "What are you looking for?" or "Why are you talking to her?" So, the woman left her water jar and went back into town and told the people [there], "Come [and] see a man who told me everything I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" [So], the people went out from the town and came to where Jesus was.