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(pronounced /ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, Standard Yaʿakov;
Septuagint Greek: Ἰακώβ; "heel" or "leg-puller", Arabic:
يعقوب Yaʿqūb), also known as Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל, Standard
Yisraʾel, Isrāʾīl; Septuagint Greek: Ἰσραήλ; "persevere with
God"[1]), as described in the Bible, was the third patriarch
of the Jewish people, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel,
named after his descendants. Islam sees Jacob (Ya'qub) as a
Prophet of Islam and Muslims believe that he preached the
same monotheistic faith as his forefathers Abraham, Isaac
and Ishmael.
In the Hebrew Bible he is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the
grandson of Abraham and Sarah and of Bethuel, and the twin
brother of Esau. He had twelve sons and several daughters,
by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and their maidservants,
Bilhah and Zilpah. The children were Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun,
daughter Dinah, Joseph, and Benjamin. Jacob had other
daughters, whose names are not mentioned.[2][3] Before the
birth of Benjamin, Jacob is renamed "Israel" by an angel,
the name after which the modern nation of Israel is named.
As a result of a severe drought in Canaan, Jacob moved to
Egypt at the time when his son Joseph was viceroy. Jacob
died there 17 years later, and Joseph carried Jacob's
remains to the land of Canaan, where he gave them stately
burial in the same Cave of Machpelah as were buried Abraham,
Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca and Jacob's wife Leah (Genesis 49:29-
50:14 )...
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