Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In Genesis, Esau returned to his brother, Jacob, being famished from the fields. He begged his twin brother to give him some "red pottage" (paralleling his nickname, Hebrew: אדום, adom, meaning "red"). Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright (the right to be recognized as firstborn) and Esau agreed. [6]
Esau, a "man of the field", became a hunter [1] who had "rough" [2] qualities that distinguished him from his twin brother. Among these qualities were his redness and noticeable hairiness. [10] Jacob was a plain or simple man, depending on the translation of the Hebrew word tam (which also means "relatively perfect man"). Jacob's color was not ...
According to this story, Leah was destined to marry Jacob's older twin brother, Esau. In the Rabbinic mind, the two brothers are polar opposites; Jacob being a God-fearing scholar and Esau being a hunter who also indulges in idolatry and adultery. But people were saying, "Laban has two daughters and his sister, Rebekah, has two sons. The older ...
In Shechem, Jacob's daughter Dinah was kidnapped and raped by the ruler's son, who desired to marry the girl. Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony. On the ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Jacob Two-Two is a Canadian animated television series based on the Jacob Two-Two books written by Mordecai Richler. [1] The show first aired on September 7, 2003, on YTV in Canada. [ 2 ] The show also aired on Qubo (as one of the network's launch shows) in the United States, and on the French-language network VRAK.TV as Jacob Jacob .
Jacob Baer, 7, was reported missing Nov. 30 from Veteran's Park in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. TWO RIVERS – The body of 7-year-old Jacob Baer was recovered from the West Twin River Sunday morning ...
According to account given in Genesis, Jacob was fleeing from his elder twin brother Esau, whom he had tricked out of receiving their father Isaac's blessing of the first-born. On his flight, Jacob rested at a city called Luz and used a group of stones as a pillow. Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.