Jacob

Jacob or Yáakov, in ??????? "maintained by the heel" or in ????? Ya?q?b, known despues like Israel ?????????? "Principe de God", ??????? Isr???l) he is one of the patriarchs of . Its history is counted in the book of .

Jacob was praised continuously by God, and never criticized. In fact, he is the only person in the Scriptures of that God said that he "adored". ("... I loved Jacob, and hated to Esaú...")

It counts the story, that Jacob bought primogenitura of its brother Esaú by a plate of soup, and to its wife Raquel, it bought it of its uncle Laban however of seven years of work.

God renombró to Jacob like after this I fight against Génesis 32:23-30, and it would get to be the father of Israelite.

Biography

Jacob probably was born in Lahai-roi, about twenty years after the marriage of and when for that time, its father tapeworm sixty years of age Génesis 25:26, and , one hundred sixty years. Like its father, Jacob era of calm disposition, because, according to the story, the era ish tam translated like simple or pure in the sense of perfect simplicity. Also it says that it lay in the store which, interpreted by many Biblical scholars, is a signal of being somebody very studious.

The era the second birth of the twin children of Isaac, by Rebeca. During the pregnancy, "the children fought together within her" Génesis 25:22. When Rebeca I consult God to him because of the fight, it received the message from, that two nations, very different among them, were forming in their belly, and that the greater one would serve the minor. Rebeca always remembered these words. In fact, it always favored Jacob. Meanwhile, his father, Isaac, always favored a Esaú, the other twin son, who were "a field man, and a great hunter".

Blessing of the first-born

The Bible says that when the boys grew, Esaú, the hunter, came hungry a day, and it asked Jacob a little to him food. Jacob requested to him that he sold the primogenitura to him, like older son, in exchange for the food. Esaú, seeing that this right was unsuitable for if got to die, acceded, and thus, in Biblical words "scorn its primogenitura".

This nonsingle right included the traditional Biblical rite of the first-born, which guaranteed a superior rank in the family Génesis 49:3, but also, one doubles portion of the paternal inheritance Deuteronomio 21:17.

When Isaac aged, and was lost enough its Vista to the point to be almost blind, it sent to Esaú to the fields, saying to him that it hunted something for one completes food before receiving its blessing. Rebeca I listen, and it said to him to Jacob who degollara two cabritos, and was engaged in its father, so that it received from the blessing of its brother. Jacob object that if his father, although were almost blind, could notice the single substitution with touching it, since Esaú was enough velludo, and to the era lampiño. Rebeca said to him that it did not worry, and it put the skins to him of the cabritos, on its neck and hands.

Jacob, thus dressed, went to the presence of his father crying out to be his brother, then Isaac, suspecting his voice, requested that he approached to feel it. Once "I make sure" that it was "Esaú", it gave the blessing him. As soon as Jacob received this blessing and I leave, Esaú I arrive, falling in great rage, disappointed reason why it had happened. Isaac, that already had realized error, said to him that the only thing that it could give him was a smaller blessing. Esaú, however, right of perpetual ownership that was going to kill its brother, once his father died.

Laban and Raquel

Rebeca, its mother, occurring account beforehand of the killer intentions of Esaú, I call to him and it made it flee, sending it to its brother, Laban, until the fury of Esaú lowers. Also, she I advise to him that it looked for a wife, while lived there.

In the way to They will do, the experiment a strange vision, in which it maintained stairs that arrived until the sky, a vision that commonly is referred in Scriptures like The Stairs of Jacob. From the top of the stairs, I listen to the voice of God, that repeated many blessings towards Jacob. Continuing its way, I arrive at Will do. Unemployment there, and found to the young daughter but of its uncle Laban, its premium Raquel. After Jacob had lived a month with his relatives, Laban offered payment to him by the aid that it had given him. Jacob I indicate that it would serve to him by seven years however of the hand of Raquel in marriage, to which, Laban acceded.

These seven years seemed to him to Jacob "few days, by the love that him tapeworm to her". But once complete the established time, Laban gave its greater daughter, Read in its place. In the morning, when Jacob discovered the change, I complain, to which Laban said that its country, was unacceptable to give in marriage the smaller daughter, before the greater daughter. Then, it offered to Jacob, whom it would also give to Raquel, single if it remained with Reads. It fulfilled the work and honeymoon, other seven years.

Once case with both "Jacob was loved Raquel and scorn to Reads". God, seeing this, caused that It reads procreated many children. It gave light a Rubén, Simeón, Leví, and a Judá before starting off for the desert. Raquel, seeing that he was incapable to procreate a son, was put jealous of its sister, then it asked Jacob who had children with his servant, Bilha, so that it could have a son through her. Jacob did thus, and Bilha gave light a and Neftalí. Thus, It also reads I enter jealousy, and it asked to him Jacob also had children with its servant, Zilpa. It as well, gave a him Gad and Aser. Then, It reads again returned to be fertile, and it gave light a Isacar and Zabulon. Also it had the only daughter of Jacob, . Then God remembered Raquel and finally it gave a son him, to whom I call .

For the time in which Jose was born, Jacob wished to return to house, but Laban I notice that God had blessed to him in great way, while Jacob was there, reason why he requested to him that it remained. It offered to pay to him, then Jacob I mention like possible payment, part of the cattle ranch of cattle of Laban, which had increased greatly. Laban acceded, and immediately it gave all the head of cattle him that Jacob had solicitd.

In agreement the time happened, the children of Laban realized that Jacob took the best part from his flocks, in addition that the friendly attitude of Laban towards Jacob had changed. Then, God noticed Jacob to him to leave the town, and after a fast consultation to its spouses, it started off without giving warning to Laban. Before starting off, Raquel robbery the icons of the house of its father.

Laban in great wrath, persecuted to Jacob during seven days, but the night before it managed it to reach, God I speak to in dreams and it said to him: "You must have well-taken care of of not speaking badly to Jacob" Génesis 31:24.

The day that was, in the mount Gilead, Laban I accuse Jacob to escabullir itself with its daughters, as if they were captive, and I question to him because he had not warned to him of its game ahead of time. I mention Jacob to him of which he could hurt it, but the message of God the previous night stopped it to do this. Finally I ask because the icons had been robbed.

Nonwise Jacob who Raquel had robbed the icons. Therefore, it said to him to Laban that quienquiera that it has robbed them must be dead, to which I solicit to allow to him to look for him. Laban did it thus, but when I look for in the store of Raquel, it hid them seating on them. Once I finish its search, and came without anything, Jacob, annoying, reprimanded it by them to have persecuted and to insist on reviewing his things all along, remembering to him that there were lost while they reviewed the stores. Both made La Paz, and Laban return to house, and Jacob followed his way.

Of return to the Engaged Earth

"and Jacob followed his way, and the Angels of God found it", to perhaps congratulate it by the 20 anniversary of the victory of the good on badly, due to its faith in the God de Abraham. Due to this encounter Jacob it called to the place Mahanaim, of Hebrew??????, "the double field". Here, previously it had seen the angels, of who it had dreamed to see them "raising and lowering in the stairs whose beginning reaches skies" (Génesis 28:12).

So soon he approached Engaged Earth, Jacob sent a message to his brother, Esaú. Their crew members returned with the news that Esaú was coming near, to be with Jacob with an army of 400 men. In great agony, Jacob prepared itself for the worse thing. It felt that now he had to be entrusted to God, to whom prayed to him. Then, Jacob sent I magnify present to Esaú, "a gift to my Mr. Esaú, of your crew member Jacob".

Then Jacob took to his family and her flocks through the mountain, and crossed in the direction of Esaú, happening the solo night with God. Thus, while he was in oration, a mysterious man appeared to him to Jacob and fought with him until the dawn, when the man requested to be released. Jacob refused, until as much the man did not bless it. The man, after asking for his name, blessed it, and he changed its name to him by the one of Israel (?????, of "one that has fought with God"). Then, Jacob asked to him the man for his name, but he refused to answer. After this, Jacob I call to the place Penei-E'l (???-??, in Hebrew "the face of God", saying: "I have seen expensive God to face, and have survived" (Genesis 32:30).

After the night of fight with the angel, Jacob sees that Esaú comes near. Then it feels to his spouses and children in order, with his loved Raquel and its son Jose behind him. (Génesis 33:3)

Esaú came and it found it, but his spirit of revenge had been calmed by the great power and wealth that he had reached. Even so, Jacob refused to travel with Esaú or to allow that any man of Esaú accompanied to him. Then, Esaú far followed with all its family and properties towards the Engaged Earth south. Jacob settled down itself in by a time. While it traveled later to Efrata, way of Bethlehem, Raquel died giving to light its second son, Youngest child, six years after the birth of Jose. (Génesis 35:16-20)

Loss and encounter with Jose

Isaac died at the age of 180 years, 44 after it blessed Jacob and it sent to Make look for it wife. In this time also, Jose, who counted on 30 years had been released of prison in and had been named Governor of those earth, single below .

Time before this, Jacob deeply "had been hurt in his soul", with the disappearance of his loved son, Jose, who had been sold to merchants by his brothers, because of the jealousy that kept their brothers to him Génesis 37:33. The rest of the Génesis follows the history of the hunger and the successive goings towards Egypt to buy grain Génesis 42, that took to the discovery of the lost Jose.

The patriarch went to Egypt with all his house, to order of his son Jose. The writings say that Jacob I get to reside in the Earth of Gosen, with its family that added "seventy souls" Exodus 1:5; Deuteronomio 10:22.

Arriving at the aim of its life, I summon to its children next to its bed, and it blessed them. Along with his you complete words, repeated the history of the death of Raquel, although they had already spent 51 years from its decease, "as if it had happened yesterday". Then, when "it did I complete ask its children, it gathered its feet in the bed, and I expire its soul" Génesis 49:33 at the age of 147 years Génesis 47:28.

The body of Jacob embalsamado and was taken to the Earth of Canáan, where it was buried with his wife Reads, in the Cave of Macpelá, according to its request before dying.

The children of Jacob

Jacob had twelve children. Of his first wife Read it had a Rubén, Simeón, Leví, Judá, Isacar and Zabulón. Also it had its only daughter Dyne.

Of Bilha, servant of Raquel, it had a They give and Neftalí.

Of Zilpa, servant of Reads, had a Gad and Aser.

Finally, of its favorite wife, Raquel, had a Jose and Youngest child.

These included/understood the twelve . Nevertheless, with Leví and Jose the subject was more complicated. The descendants of Leví, calls frock coats, they were priests, and therefore, they did not have earth. With the purpose of causing that the number of tribes was twelve, since Tribe of Jose was not mentioned to Leví, and did not exist, named to the children of this last one, whom she had in Egypt with Asenath, like substitutes: Efraín and Manasés.