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The tomb is 12 feet long, 3 1/2 feet broad, 5 feet high, covered with a dark green cloth and a canopy above. An ostrich egg is hung near. North of the chamber is a vaulted room of equal size, and to the east is an open court with a fig-tree, and a second cenotaph rudely plastered, said to be that of Esau's slave. Rock-cut tombs exist south-west ...
Esau עֵשָׂו (Edom אֱדֹֽום) Married three wives [1]. Reuel [2] רְעוּאֵֽל By Basemath בָּשְׂמַ֥ת (daughter of Elon the Hittite, wife of Ishmael?) [3] Also called Mahalath (the sister of Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael) Married just after Jacob's flight to Haran
Isaac then bestowed the blessing (bekhorah), which confers a prophetic wish for fertility (vv. 27–28) and dominion (v.29), on Jacob before Esau's return. Esau is furious and vows to kill Jacob [11] as soon as their father has died. Rebecca intervenes to save her younger son Jacob from being murdered by her elder son, Esau. [12]
Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. [1] Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan , Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh ), moved to Egypt where Jacob ...
The word rendered 'mules' in the Authorized Version is the Hebrew יֵמַים, yemim, perhaps the Emim, or giants, as in the reading of the Samuel הָאֵימַים, and so also Onkelos and Pseudo-Jonathan; Gesenius prefers 'hot-springs', following the Vulgate rendering. [1] Zibeon was also one of the dukes or phylarchs of the Horites. [5] [1]
Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. [4] Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs , the other three being Adam and Eve , Abraham and Sarah , and Jacob and Leah . [ 5 ]
See also References L Laadah Laadah is one of the sons of Shelah, son of Judah (son of Jacob) in 1 Chronicles 4:21. Laadan See Libni Ladan See Libni Lael Lael (Hebrew לָאֵל "belonging to God") was a member of the house of Gershon according to Numbers 3:24. He was the father of Eliasaph. Neither of these is named in the Gershonite list in 1 Chronicles 23:7–11. Lahmi Lahmi, according to 1 ...
The lifetimes given for the patriarchs in the Masoretic Text of the Book of Genesis are: Adam 930 years, Seth 912, Enos 905, Kenan 910, Mahalalel 895, Jared 962, Enoch 365 (did not die, but was taken away by God), Methuselah 969, Lamech 777, Noah 950. [6]