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In Genesis, Esau returned to his brother, Jacob, being famished from the fields. He begged his twin brother to give him some "red pottage" (paralleling his nickname, Hebrew: אדום, adom, meaning "red"). Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright (the right to be recognized as firstborn) and Esau agreed. [6]
Esau, a "man of the field", became a hunter [1] who had "rough" [2] qualities that distinguished him from his twin brother. Among these qualities were his redness and noticeable hairiness. [10] Jacob was a plain or simple man, depending on the translation of the Hebrew word tam (which also means "relatively perfect man"). Jacob's color was not ...
Jacob Two-Two is a Canadian-animated television series based on the Jacob Two-Two books written by Mordecai Richler. [1] The show first aired on September 7, 2003, on YTV in Canada. [ 2 ] The show also aired on Qubo (as one of the network's launch shows) in the United States, and on the French-language network VRAK.TV as Jacob Jacob .
In Shechem, Jacob's daughter Dinah was kidnapped and raped by the ruler's son, who desired to marry the girl. Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony. On the ...
The Story of Jacob and Joseph is a 1974 American Biblical drama television film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Biblical Book of Genesis with a screenplay written by Ernest Kinoy. It stars Keith Michell as Jacob , Tony Lo Bianco as Joseph , Colleen Dewhurst as Rebekah , Herschel Bernardi as Laban , Harry Andrews as Isaac , and ...
Joseph and His Brothers (German: Joseph und seine Brüder, pronounced [ˈjoːzɛf ʊnt ˌzaɪ̯nə ˈbʁyːdɐ]) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis, from Jacob to Joseph (chapters 27–50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period. Mann ...
Superbook whisks Chris, Joy, and Gizmo to the Negev Desert, where they meet the twin brothers Jacob and Esau. Their father, Isaac, favors Esau, the firstborn, while their mother, Rebekah, favors Jacob, who recalls God asserting Esau will serve Jacob. After an unsuccessful hunt, Esau demands that Jacob, who deceives to sell his birthright in ...
According to account given in Genesis, Jacob was fleeing from his elder twin brother Esau, whom he had tricked out of receiving their father Isaac's blessing of the first-born. On his flight, Jacob rested at a city called Luz and used a group of stones as a pillow. Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.