Quotes About Jacob

I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.

The aunts will love this, Jacob," said Mama. "You can pick them up at the train in style." "Better than three old women on a dapple-gray horse," said Grandfather. Papa looked back over his shoulder at Jack, who sat quietly, looking at the prairie pass by. "Zeke could handle it," he said softly to Grandfather. "Not sure the aunts could," whispered Grandfather.

So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my sonís game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

When Esau heard his fatherís words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”

And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and Godís angels were going up and down the ladder.

“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.

“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his motherís brother Laban, with Labanís sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncleís sheep.

So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,

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

And Leahís servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

When Leahís servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my sonís mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

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

Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Labanís flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Labanís animals.

Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.

Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.

So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,

When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

In that dream the angel of God said to me, ëJacob!í And I replied, ëHere I am.í

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.