יַעֲקֹב (ya.a.qov)

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old…

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her…

She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of…

Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of…

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau…

He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now…

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of…

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him,…

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters…

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and…

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as…

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and…

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to…

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”

When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob…

Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your…

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or…

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the…

She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have…

God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Laban said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I…

He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white…

Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He…

Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering…

but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this…

Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either…

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in…

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the…

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that…

Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For…

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them.…

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly…

Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all…

Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of…

Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night…

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the…

Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have…

Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place…

Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped…

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held…

Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he…

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their…

The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all…

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword,…

Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you…

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify…

They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob…

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named…

Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it,…

Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now…

The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as…

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons,…

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his…

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his…

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you…

They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry…

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives,…

They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and…

These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons…

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were…

All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all…

The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into…

Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have…

Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred…

Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the…

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in…

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter…

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from…

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered…

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land…