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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).
Jacob did as his mother instructed and, when he returned with the kids, Rebecca made the savory meat that Isaac loved. Before she sent Jacob to his father, she dressed him in Esau's garments and laid goatskins on his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin. An elderly Isaac blessing Jacob, oil on canvas by Govert Flinck, 1638
The narrative of Esau selling his birthright to Jacob, in Genesis 25, [27] states that Esau despised his birthright. However, it also alludes to Jacob being deceitful. In Esau's mother and father's eyes, the deception may have been deserved. Rebecca later abets Jacob in receiving his father's blessing disguised as Esau.
Throughout Genesis, Esau is frequently shown as being supplanted by his younger twin, Jacob (Israel). [10] According to the Muslim tradition, the prophet Yaqub, or Israel, was the favorite of his mother, and his twin brother Esau was the favorite of his father, prophet Ishaq, and he is mentioned in the "Story of Ya'qub" in Qisas al-Anbiya.
However, Reuben, Leah's eldest, felt that this move slighted his mother, who was also a primary wife, and so he moved his mother's bed into Jacob's tent and removed or overturned Bilhah's. This invasion of Jacob's privacy was viewed so gravely that the Bible equates it with adultery, and lost Reuben his first-born right to a double inheritance ...
The retired boxer welcomed his two eldest sons with different women in 1998 — during his romance with Atiana’s mother, Shanna Moakler. While Jacob’s mom is De La Hoya’s ex-girlfriend Toni ...
While Jacob’s blood perhaps isn’t quite as blue, his father William Rees-Mogg (a lord) was newspaper editor of The Times and chair of the Arts Council. Jacob followed the classic Eton/Oxford ...
Jacob Mayhugh, 22, avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty in connection with the Chickasha triple-murder of his mother and father, Patty and James Mayhugh, and his sister, Shayla Mayhugh ...