Bible: Hebrew Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:

    The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:15.

    As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)