Son of Isaac, and twin brother of Esau

Gen 25:24-26; Jos 24:4; 1Ch 1:34; Act 7:8

Ancestor of Jesus

Given in answer to prayer

Obtains Esau's birthright for a mess of pottage

Gen 25:29-34; Heb 12:16

Fraudulently obtains his father's blessing

Gen 27:1-29; Heb 11:20

Esau seeks to slay, escapes to Padanaram

Gen 27:41-46; Gen 28:1-5; Hos 12:12

His vision of the ladder

God confirms the covenant of Abraham to

Gen 28:13-22; Gen 35:9-15; 1Ch 16:13-18

Sojourns in Haran with his uncle Laban

Gen 29-30; Hos 12:12

Serves fourteen years for Leah and Rachel

Gen 29:15-30; Hos 12:12

Sharp practice of, with the flocks and herds of Laban

Dissatisfied with Laban's treatment and returns to the land of Canaan

Gen 31

Meets angels of God on the journey, and calls the place Mahanaim

Dreads to meet Esau; sends him presents; wrestles with an angel

Gen 32

Name of, changed to Israel

Gen 32:28; Gen 35:10

Reconciliation of, with Esau

Journeys to Succoth

Journeys to Shalem, where he purchases a parcel of ground from Hamor, and erects an altar

His daughter, Dinah, humbled

Gen 34

Returns to Bethel, where he builds an altar, and erects and dedicates a pillar

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dies, and is buried at Bethel

Journeys to Ephrath; Benjamin is born to; Rachel dies, and is “buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem”

Gen 35:16-19; Gen 48:7

Erects a monument at Rachel's grave

The incest of his son, Reuben, and his concubine, Bilhah

List of the names of his twelve sons

Returns to Arbah, the city of his father

Dwells in the land of Canaan

His partiality for his son, Joseph, and the consequent jealousy of his other sons

Joseph's prophetic dream concerning

His grief over the loss of Joseph

Sends into Egypt to bury corn

Gen 42:1-2; Gen 43:1-14

His grief over the detention of Simeon, and the demand for Benjamin to be taken into Egypt

His love for Benjamin

Gen 43:14; Gen 44:29

Hears that Joseph still lives

Removes to Egypt

Gen 46:1-7; 1Sa 12:8; Psa 105:23; Act 7:14-15

List of his children and grandchildren who went down into Egypt

Gen 46:8-27

Meets Joseph

Pharaoh receives him, and is blessed by Jacob

The land of Goshen assigned to

Gen 47:11-12; Gen 47:27

Dwells in Egypt seventeen years

Exacts a promise from Joseph to buy him with his fathers

His benediction upon Joseph and his two sons

Gives the land of the Amorites to Joseph

Gen 48:22; Joh 4:5

His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons:

Charges his sons to bury him in the field of Machpelah

Death of

Body of, embalmed

Forty days mourning for

Burial of

Descendants of

Gen 29:31-35; Gen 30:1-24; Gen 35:18; Gen 35:22-26; Gen 46:8-27; Exo 1:1-5; 1 Chr 2-9

Gen 25:23; Gen 27:28-29; Gen 28:10-15; Gen 31:3; Gen 35:9-13; Gen 46:3; Deu 1:8; Psa 105:10-11

His wealth

Well of

John 4:5-30