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| Influenced | Twelve Tribes o Israel as well as mony Jews, Christians an Muslims |
Jacob is the eponymous auncestor o the Israelites. Accordin tae the Beuk o Genesis, Jacob (/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Ebreu: יַעֲקֹב Standard Yaʿakov[1]) wis the third biblical patriarch wi whom God made a covenant.
In the Ebreu Bible, he is the son o Isaac an Rebekah, the grandson o Abraham, Sarah an o Bethuel, an the younger twin brither o Esau. Jacob haed twelve sons an at least ane dauchter, bi his twa wives, Leah an Rachel, an bi thair handmaidens Bilhah an Zilpah. The childer named in Genesis wur Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, dauchter Dinah, Joseph, an Benjamin.[2]
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- ↑ Tiberian
Yaʿăqōḇ (help·info); Septuagint Greek: Ἰακώβ Iakōb; Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ Yah'qub; Arabic: يَعْقُوب Yaʿqūb. See J. Wells, Longman pronunciation dictionary, 1990, p. 381, entry "Jacob".
- ↑ Enumerations o the twelve tribes vary. Because Jacob effectively adoptit twa o his grandsons bi Joseph an Asenath, namely Ephraim an Manasseh, the twa grandsons wur eften substitutit for the Tribe o Joseph, yieldin thirteen tribes, or twelve if Levi is set apart.
