Quotes About Jacob

But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ëBe careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.í

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacobís hip was struck near that tendon.

After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

Meanwhile, Shechemís father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacobís sons.

So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

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

After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

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

The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

And the sons of Leahís maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.