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Peter Paul Rubens, The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau, 1624. Genesis 32-33 [15] tells of Jacob and Esau's eventual meeting according to God's commandment in Genesis 31:3 and 32:10 [16] after Jacob had spent more than 20 years staying with Laban in Padan-Aram. The two men prepare for their meeting like warriors about to enter into battle.
The Talmud adds that Jacob spent 14 years in the yeshiva of Shem and Eber before proceeding to Laban, arriving when he was 77. Rebecca's death after Jacob's 20 years with Laban indicates that Jacob was 97 when his mother died and Rebecca was either 120 or 134 (based on different Midrashim mentioned earlier about her age at marriage).
Superbook whisks them to the Negev Desert, where they meet the twin brothers Jacob and Esau. Their father, Isaac, favors Esau, the firstborn, while their mother, Rebekah, favors Jacob, who recalls God asserting Esau will serve Jacob. After an unsuccessful hunt, Esau demands that Jacob, who deceives to sell his birthright in exchange for a stew ...
Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. [1] Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan , Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh ), moved to Egypt where Jacob ...
Thus Jacob acquires Esau's birthright. This is the origin of the English phrase "to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage". In Genesis 27:1–40, Jacob uses deception, motivated by his mother Rebekah, to lay claim to his blind father Isaac's blessing that was inherently due to the firstborn, Esau. In Genesis 27:5–7, Rebekah is listening ...
Esau's family is again revisited in Genesis 36, this passage names two Canaanite wives; Adhah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, and a third: Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. Some scholars equate the three wives mentioned in Genesis 26 and 28 with those in ...
The Priestly source illustrates history in Genesis by compiling the genealogy beginning with the "generations of the heavens and the earth" and continuing through Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac to the descendants of Jacob and Esau. Jacob's descendants are listed in Genesis 46:8-27, beginning with the phrase "these are the names." [72]
"The book of Genesis story about Jacob's dream of a ladder leading up to heaven during a flight from his brother Esau provides the inspirational thrust for the album." [2] There are two three-part suites: "Cogs in Cogs", based on Gentle Giant's piece from their The Power and the Glory album; and "Jacob's Ladder". [2]