Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac of Jacob, and Jacob of Judah and his brothers,

and Eliud of Eleazar, and Eleazar of Matthan, and Matthan of Jacob,

and Jacob of Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus called Christ.

And I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,

'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men but of living!"

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

and he will reign over Jacob's house forever; his reign will have no end."

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

There you will weep and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are put outside.

But that the dead are raised to life, even Moses indicated in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go.

And he made the agreement of circumcision with him, and so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and he sent our forefathers on their first visit there.

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all,

and Jacob came down to Egypt. There he and our forefathers died,

'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses was terrified and did not dare to look at it.

He won the approval of God and begged to be allowed to provide a dwelling for the God of Jacob,

As the Scripture says, "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau."

and then all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says, "The deliverer will come from Zion, He will drive all ungodliness away from Jacob,

Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.

Faith enabled Isaac to bequeath to Jacob and Esau blessings that were still to be.

Faith made Jacob when he was dying give a blessing to each of Joseph's sons, and bow in worship even while leaning on his staff.