Quotes About Jacob

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his fatherís wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.

They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacobís firstborn.

These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.

These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.

All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacobís sons—numbered sixty-six persons.

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacobís family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacobís family arrived in the land of Goshen,

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me

So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ëMay God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.í” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ëThe LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.í This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!í”

And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ëCome,í he said, ëput a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!í

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”