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Jacob Parmar Fatu (born March 7, 1992) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE , where he performs on the SmackDown brand as a member of The Bloodline stable.
Jacob is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin. The English form is derived from the Latin Iacobus , from the Greek Ἰάκωβος ( Iakobos ), ultimately from the Hebrew יַעֲקֹב ( Yaʿaqōḇ ), the name of Jacob , biblical patriarch of the Israelites , and a major figure in the Abrahamic religions .
When Laban planned to deceive Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel, the Midrash recounts that both Jacob and Rachel suspected that Laban would pull such a trick; Laban was known as the "Aramean" (deceiver), and changed Jacob's wages ten times during his employ (Genesis 31:7). The couple therefore devised a series of signs by which Jacob ...
Nathan ben Abraham, the 11th-century Mishnah exegete, explains the method of making a type of ash cake (ma'asei re'afīm) in Palestine. They would bake the cake by heating to fire temperature broken potsherds and spreading the dough over them. [13] Maimonides says that the dough, in this case, was spread over hot tiles and a lid-covering placed ...
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Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face-to-face, and my soul survives." The sun shone on him when he passed Penuel , and he was limping over his thigh. Verily, to this day the Israelites do not eat the ' forgotten sinew ', which is over the socket of the thigh, for he struck in the socket of Jacob's thigh, in the ...
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The Ladder of Jacob is based on the Biblical dream of Jacob in Genesis 28:11–19. Chapter 1 is an expansion of the narrative of Genesis. Jacob falls asleep and sees a ladder set up on the Earth; the top of it reaches to heaven with angels ascending and descending on it. Many details are added to the Genesis narrative: the ladder is made of ...