Bible: Hebrew Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:

    The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 1:9.

    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)