Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:
“Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis, 3:5.
The serpent’s temptation, spoken to Eve.
“I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)