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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).
Reading the words, "and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents," the Midrash taught that Jacob dwelt in two tents, the academy of Shem and the academy of Eber. And reading the words of Genesis 25:28, "And Rebekah loved Jacob," the Midrash taught that the more Rebekah heard Jacob's voice (engaged in study), the stronger her love grew for him. [95]
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.
Superbook whisks Chris, Joy, and Gizmo 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 Jacob, who deceives to sell his birthright in exchange ...
Esau was a couple of seconds older as he had come out of the womb first, and was going to become the heir; however, through carelessness, he sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew. His mother, Rebekah, ensures Jacob rightly gains his father's blessing as the firstborn son and inheritor.
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 ...
Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root (דודאים, dûdâ'îm).