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Jacob

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A Hebrew patriarch, younger son of Isaac and Rebecca, the favourite of his mother, and had twelve sons, the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel; his character and the story of his life are naïvely delineated in the book of Genesis.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Jacob'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​j/jacob.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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