Quotes about Jacob
So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- Genesis 35:14
Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
- Genesis 35:15
Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
- Genesis 35:20
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 35:22
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 35:26
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Genesis 35:27
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 37:1
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
- Genesis 37:2
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 37:34
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- Genesis 42:1
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 42:4
When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
- Genesis 42:29