Jacob

[Fact 1]: And Pharaoh, when he heard of this, rejoiced, and gave to Joseph and his brothers the best that Egypt could offer.And so Jacob and all his family came to Egypt, seventy persons plus their wives, and all, except for Joseph, his two sons and one grandchild, were settled in the Land of Goshen. Joseph presented Jacob and five of his brothers to Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.When Jacob felt that his days were near, he blessed Jacob adopted Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, as his own.

[Fact 2]: Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces." Yet, even as Jacob was mourning for his son, Joseph was being sold as a slave to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials.While a slave in Potiphar's house, Joseph resisted the advances of his master's wife.

[Fact 3]: The Midrash says that during Rebekah's pregnancy whenever she would pass a house of Torah study, Jacob would struggle to come out; whenever she would pass a house of idolatry, Esau would agitate to come out.Bereshit Rabbah 63:6.Rashi explained that Isaac, when blessing Jacob instead of Esau, smelled the heavenly scent of Gan Eden when Jacob entered his room and, in contrast, perceived Gehenna opening beneath Esau when the latter entered the room, showing him that he had been deceived all along by Esau's show of piety.Pirkei dRav Kahana, quoted in Scherman, p.

[Fact 4]: Ya`qūb is a name that is accepted in Muslim community showing the value attributed to Jacob.

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[Fact 5]: On the following morning the brothers departed, but before they had gone far a messenger overtook them, accusing them of stealing the goblet.

[Fact 6]: The second is named יעקב, Jacob .Strong's Concordance 3290, 6117.The boys displayed very different natures as they matured.

[Fact 7]: The prophecy also said that the older would serve the younger; its statement "one people will be stronger than the other" has been taken to mean that the two nations would never gain power simultaneously: when one fell, the other would rise, and vice versa.

[Fact 8]: Jacob responded, "Because the Lord your God arranged it for me"; Rashi says Isaac's suspicions were aroused because Esau never used the personal name of God.

[Fact 9]: A conservative interpretation is that, at Isaac's burial, Jacob obtained the records of Esau, who had been married 80 years prior, and incorporated them into his own family records, and that Moses augmented and published them.Joseph was Jacobs favorite son, and Jacob gave him a coat of many colors.