Bible: Hebrew Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew jacob, hebrew and/or jacob:

    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)

    Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:4.

    The second commandment.

    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)