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Not who you're looking for? Others named Jacob: unincorporated community in Jackson County, Illinois · fictional character of the TV series Lost · family name · Book of Mormon prophet; younger brother of Nephi; author of
“If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God”
“[Talk to Esau about his children] : The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.”
“He said: I complain of my grief and sorrow only to Allah, and I know from Allah what you know not. O my sons, go and inquire about Joseph and his brother; and despair not of Allah's mercy. Surely none despairs of Allah's mercy except the disbelieving people.”
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Jacob, later given the name Israel, is the third Hebrew patriarch in Judaism and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother Esau, Jacob's paternal grandparents are Abraham and Sarah and his maternal grandfather is Bethuel, whose wife is not mentioned. He is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Then, following a severe drought in his homeland Canaan, Jacob and his descendants migrated to neighbouring Egypt through the efforts of his son Joseph, who had become a confidant of the pharaoh. After dying in Egypt at the age of 147, he is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron.
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