Famous quotes containing the word hebrew:
“And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 78:66.
“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 2:22.
Moses, referring to his time in Egypt.
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)