The Old Testament describes a number of marriages, some of the best known being Adam and Eve ; Abraham, Sarah and Hagar ; Isaac and Rebekah ; Jacob, Rachel and Leah ; Boaz and Ruth ; David, Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba ; and Hosea and the prostitute Gomer, whom he married at God's command.

:* Chayei Sarah, on Genesis 23 – 25: Sarah buried, Rebekah for Isaac

On the death of Sarah, Abraham purchases Machpelah ( modern Hebron ) for a family tomb and sends his servant to Mesopotamia to find among his relations a wife for Isaac, and Rebekah is chosen.

Isaac's wife Rebekah is barren, but Isaac prays to God and she gives birth to the twins Esau, father of the Edomites, and Jacob.

Eliezer chose Rebekah for Isaac.

After many years of marriage to Isaac, Rebekah had still not given birth to a child and was believed to be barren.

Isaac favored Esau, and Rebekah favored Jacob.

In the Hebrew Bible, he is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau.

After Jacob died there 17 years later, 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, Rebekah and Jacob's wife, Leah ().

Jacob and his twin brother, Esau, were born to Isaac and Rebekah after 20 years of marriage, when Isaac was 60 (, ).

According to Genesis 25: 25, Isaac and Rebekah named the first son עשו, Esau (` Esav or ` Esaw, meaning " hairy " or " rough ", from, ` asah, " do " or " make "; or " completely developed ", from, ` assui ).

Moreover, the attitudes of their parents toward them also differed: " And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Jacob did as his mother instructed and, when he returned with the kids, Rebekah made the savory meat that Isaac loved.

In that case, since Isaac was 60 when Jacob and Essau were born and they had been married for 20 years, then Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah ( Gen. 25: 20 ), making Rebekah 3 years old at the time of her marriage, and 23 years old at the birth of Jacob and Essau.

In either case, Isaac and Rebekah were married for 20 years before Jacob and Esau were born.

This conflict was paralleled by the affection the parents had for their favored child: " Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

In, " Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau.

Moreover, having lived with two such godless persons as Ahab and Jezebel without learning to act as they did, he seemed the most suitable person to prophesy against Esau ( Edom ), who, having been brought up by two pious persons, Isaac and Rebekah, had not learned to imitate their good deeds.

This is followed by the story of the three patriarchs ( Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ), Joseph ( Genesis 12 – 50 ) and the four matriarchs ( Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel ).

He reported: Here there is the great church called St. Abram, and this was a Jewish place of worship at the time of the Mohammedan rule, but the Gentiles have erected there six tombs, respectively called those of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah.

Jewish tradition names it as the location for a number of important events which occurred in the Bible, including the Binding of Isaac, Jacob's dream, and the prayer of Isaac and Rebekah.

Isaac (;, Yiçḥaq, " he will laugh ";, ;, ; ; or ) as described in the Hebrew Bible, was the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah, and was the father of Jacob and Esau.

Sarah or Sara (; Śarra ; ; Arabic: Sārah ; Persian: Sārā ) was the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac as described in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran.

Isidor Isaac Rabi (; 29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988 ) was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging.

Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (; 21 September 1758, Paris – 21 February 1838, Paris ), was a French linguist and orientalist.

Isaac Ilyich Levitan (; August 30, 1860 – ) was a classical Lithuanian-Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the " mood landscape ".