Quotes About Legacy

“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

ëBring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.í

So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.

Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.

And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.

And Rachelís servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

Now Jacob heard that Labanís sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our fatherís expense.”

And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our fatherís house?

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

But You have said, ëI will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.í”

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

Now Deborah, Rebekahís nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachelís tomb to this day.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his fatherís concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

And Isaac lived 180 years.