Bible: Hebrew Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:

    “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Job 38:11.

    God speaking to Job of his laying of his “foundations of the earth.”

    “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)