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    between fraternal twins Jacob and Esau, sons of Isaac and Rebecca. The story focuses on Esau's loss of his birthright to Jacob and the conflict that ensued...
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    Jacob and Esau were the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Of the twins, Esau was the first to be born with Jacob following...
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    brother is the elder, named Esau, according to the biblical account. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived...
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    Rebecca (category Esau)
    (/rɪˈbɛkə/) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel...
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  • Jacob and Esau (Italian: Giacobbe ed Esaù) is a 1963 Italian religious epic drama film written and directed by Mario Landi and starring Edmund Hashim and...
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    parashah tells of the conflict between Jacob and Esau, Isaac's passing off his wife Rebekah as his sister, and Isaac's blessing of his sons. It constitutes...
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    in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. In the parashah, Jacob reconciles with Esau after wrestling with a "man." The prince Shechem rapes Dinah,...
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    Isaac (category Esau)
    in which he is considered to be the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel. Isaac's...
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    It is the name of the biblical figure Rebecca, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. The name comes from the Semitic root ר-ב-ק (r-b-q), meaning...
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  • Esau and Jacob is a village in the Mahaica-Berbice Region of Guyana. One of the oldest villages on the Mahaicony River, Esau and Jacob was named by Dutch...
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    that was featured in a dream the biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28). The significance...
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    Leah (category Jacob)
    marry Jacob's OLDER twin brother, Esau. In the Rabbinic mind, the two brothers are polar opposites; Jacob being a God-fearing scholar and Esau being a...
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    Abraham (redirect from Abraham and Sarah)
    Abimelech. Ginzberg 1909, Vol. I: Joy and Sorrow in the House of Jacob. Ginzberg 1909, Vol. I: The Birth of Esau and Jacob. Sefer Yetzirah Hashalem (with Rabbi...
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  • in 1981. The title alludes to the sibling rivalry between Jacob and Esau in the Bible, and comes from Romans 9:13 (quoting Malachi 1:2). The novel follows...
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    The Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob is a 1624 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Originally in the Spanish royal collection, it was sent to Germany by Maria...
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    List of women in the Bible (category Judaism and women)
    Deborah #1 – Nursemaid to Rebekah and later to Jacob and Esau. Genesis Deborah #2 – Prophetess and the fourth, and the only female, Judge of pre–monarchic...
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    etymologized (in a direct speech by the character Esau) in Genesis 27:36, adding the significance of Jacob having "supplanted" his elder brother by buying...
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    Machado's contemporary, developed the idea through the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau struggling for dominance in their mother's womb, as in the article "Rebeca"...
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    Esau and Jacob (Portuguese:Esaú e Jacó) is a Machado de Assis novel launched in 1904, four years before his death, by Editora Garnier, and, according to...
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    believed Jacob wrestled with the guardian angel of Esau (identified as Samael), his elder twin brother. Zvi Kolitz (1993) referred to Jacob "wrestling...
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    subdivisions. The first and last book also comprise a “Prelude” each. Prelude. Descent into Hell I. By the Well II. Jacob and Esau III. The story of Dinah...
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    story of Jacob and Esau in the Book of Genesis, Esau, being famished, sold his birthright (the rights of the eldest son) to his twin brother Jacob in exchange...
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    Not only were Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity religious twins, but, like Jacob and Esau, the twin sons of Isaac and Rebecca, they fought in the womb...
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  • Young Jacob's Wife Harvey Keitel as Abraham, Esau and Jacob's Father Omri Raveh as Young Abraham Yuliya Peresild as Sarah, Esau and Jacob's Mother Mark...
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  • the Book of Genesis about Jacob. Jacob defrauds his twin brother Esau and flees. In Haran he gets to know his cousin Rachel, and falls in love with her....
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  • several times in the Bible; for example, as the age of Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born, and the number of warriors escorting King Solomon. In the laws of...
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    to the three sons of Noah, as also the lineage of Abraham and Ishmael, and of Jacob and Esau. The blessed Creator knew that men would find solace at knowing...
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    Lakshmana and Shatrughna - Children of Dasharatha and Sumitra Indra and Agni - Mirror twins Nala and Nila Ramayan Jacob and Esau - Sons of Isaac and Rebekah...
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  • God could not love Jacob and hate Esau until Jacob had done something worthy of love and Esau had done something worthy of hatred and so the passage means...
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    Brother (category Kinship and descent)
    Yudhoyono and Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, politicians In the Bible: Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac and Rebecca Moses...
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