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)

    And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
    —Bible: Hebrew Genesis, 2:7.

    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)