Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Jacob then made a further move while Rachel was pregnant; near When Isaac died at the age of 180, Jacob and Esau buried him in the Sometime afterward, the sons of Jacob by Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah, were feeding his flocks in Shechem. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Genesis 25:24–34. History at your fingertips However, by deceiving Isaac when he was old and blind, Jacob was able to usurp the blessing that belonged to Esau as the firs…

When Rebecca heard about his murderous intentions,In the morning, Jacob awakened and continued on his way to Haran, after naming the place where he had spent the night "Arriving in Haran, Jacob saw a well where shepherds were gathering their flocks to water them and met Jacob, having been celibate until the age of 84, fathered twelve children in the next seven years.After Joseph was born, Jacob decided to return home to his parents. It is suggested that she realized prophetically that Isaac's blessings would go to Jacob, since she was told before the twins' birth that the older son would serve the younger.Disguised as Esau, Jacob entered Isaac's room. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Looking upon the wagons he declared “Joseph my son is still alive. Jacob responded, "Because the LORD your God brought it to me."

When Reuben, the eldest, mentioned that they needed to bring Benjamin to Egypt to prove their word as honest men, their father became furious with them. It was still in their possession, and so they all became afraid. When the two met, Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword? Having made Jacob a ruler over his brothers, Isaac could only promise, "By your sword you shall live, but your brother you shall serve; yet it shall be that when you are aggrieved, you may cast off his yoke from upon your neck" (27:39–40).

Israel was embalmed and a great ceremonial journey to Canaan was prepared by Joseph. But Israel refused saying, “but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he.” A declaration he made, just as Israel himself was to his firstborn brother Esau. The name comes either from the Hebrew root עקב ʿqb meaning "to follow, to be behind" but also "to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach", or from the word for "heel", עֲקֵב ʿaqeb. Esau offered to accompany them on their way back to Israel, but Jacob protested that his children were still young and tender (born six to 13 years prior in the narrative); Jacob suggested eventually catching up with Esau at Jacob returned to Bethel, where he had another vision of blessing. At Jacobs, we put people at the heart of our business. His 12 sons became the progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel. They relayed to their father all that had happened in Egypt.

Although Esau sold Jacob his own birthright, which was his blessing, for "red pottage," Esau still hated Jacob for receiving his blessing that their father Isaac unknowingly had given to him.
Some commentators cite this placement as proof that Jacob continued to favor Joseph over Leah's children, as presumably the rear position would have been safer from a frontal assault by Esau, which Jacob feared. According to the Old Testament, Jacob was the younger twin brother of Esau, who was the ancestor of E

Edom, the older nation, was made subject to Israel by Then Israel called all of his sons in and prophesied their blessings or curses to all twelve of them in order of their ages. Equality.