The Blessing of Jacob is a prophetic poem written that appears in Genesis at 49:1–27 and mentions each of Jacob's twelve sons. Genesis presents the poem...
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Jacob his more hirsute brother. Jacob brought Isaac a dish of goat meat prepared by Rebecca to taste like venison. Isaac then bestowed the blessing (bekhorah)...
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deathbed blessing (Genesis 49:5–7). Jacob returned to Bethel, where he had another vision of blessing. Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is...
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Levi (category Children of Jacob)
men of the city to be circumcised, and when Jacob hears about their destruction of Shechem, he castigates them for it. In the Blessing of Jacob, Jacob is...
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Isaac Blessing Jacob may refer to: Isaac Blessing Jacob (Murillo), a 1665–1670 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Isaac Blessing Jacob (Gerbrand...
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its theme with the Blessing of Jacob. The Blessing of Moses contains few blessings, most of the verses describing the condition of the tribes at a later...
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rape of Dinah (Gen. chap. 34) disqualifies them as leaders. The eternal legacy of these events are foreshadowed in the deathbed blessing of Jacob (Gen...
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Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph may refer to: Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (Rembrandt), 1656 work by Rembrandt Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph...
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passed over in favour of Judah in the J-version of Jacob's deathbed blessing (composed in Judah before the fall of Israel). The Tribe of Simeon: An apocryphal...
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they were originally a single work. All three works are based on the Blessing of Jacob, found in the Bible, in their style. Christian elements are usually...
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with the Egyptian crown prince, against Joseph and Asenath. In the Blessing of Jacob, Dan is described as a serpent, which seems to have been interpreted...
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blessings are modeled after the blessing given by Jacob to each of his sons prior to his death. Other blessings of comfort, healing, and guidance may...
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groups of the Book of Mormon (Nephites and Lamanites) were parts of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, as part fulfilment of the blessing of Jacob: "Joseph...
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of Torah reading. The parashah tells of the conflict between Jacob and Esau, Isaac's passing off his wife Rebekah as his sister, and Isaac's blessing...
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interpreted as just referring to a social position titled levi. In the Blessing of Jacob, Levi is treated as a tribe, cursing them to become scattered; critics...
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portrayed as having exclaves within the territory of the other.[citation needed] In the Blessing of Jacob, and elsewhere ascribed by textual scholars to...
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Govert Flinck (category Pupils of Rembrandt)
earliest of Flinck's authentic pieces is a portrait of a lady, dated 1636, in the gallery of Brunswick. His first subject picture is the Blessing of Jacob (1638)...
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of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn,...
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three works are based on the Blessing of Jacob, found in the Bible, in their style. There is no definite date for the writing of this work, but is believed...
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work. All three works are based on the Blessing of Jacob, found in the Bible, in their style. The Testament of Abraham was likely written originally in...
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Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph is a 1656 oil painting by Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn. It is said to have almost “a sculptural surface with a translucent...
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Joseph and His Brothers (category Children of Jacob)
from the text of the Blessing of Jacob throughout the details; thus Reuben is "turbulent as the waters" (and associated with Aquarius by Jacob). Simeon and...
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Zodiac (redirect from Signs of the Zodiac)
Brothers, attributes characteristics of a sign of the zodiac to each tribe, in his rendition of the Blessing of Jacob.[citation needed] The Babylonian star...
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Jacob wrestling with the angel is described in the Book of Genesis (chapter 32:22–32; also referenced in the Book of Hosea, chapter 12:3–5). The "angel"...
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Ephraim (category Book of Genesis people)
Jacob was entirely aware of who he was actually blessing; other rabbinical sources connect the term with shikkel, viewing it as signifying that Jacob...
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In religion, a blessing (also used to refer to bestowing of such) is the impartation of something with grace, holiness, spiritual redemption, or divine...
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Naphtali (category Children of Jacob)
from the Blessing of Jacob, which equates Naphtali to a hind. However, Biblical scholars believe this to actually be a description of the tribe of Naphtali...
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contains the Blessing of Jacob, a series of predictions which the Bible presents as delivered by the patriarch Jacob about the future fate of the tribes...
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Zimri. The Blessing of Moses before his death had omitted the Tribe of Simeon because Jacob had castigated him Genesis 49:5-7, and because of the terrible...
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Tribes of Israel had an insignia of a distinctive colour, on which was a figure or symbol that designated the tribe, according to the Blessing of Jacob. Scripture...
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