Jacob (;, ; Septuagint ; ; " heel " or " leg-puller "), also later known as Israel (,,, " persevere with God "; Septuagint ; ), as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur ' an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.

( 1 ) The Principal Allied and Associated Powers confer a mandate on one of their number or on a third power ; ( 2 ) the principal powers officially notify the council of the League of Nations that a certain power has been appointed mandatory for such a certain defined territory ; and ( 3 ) the council of the League of Nations takes official cognisance of the appointment of the mandatory power and informs the latter that it council considers it as invested with the mandate, and at the same time notifies it of the terms of the mandate, after assertaining whether they are in conformance with the provisions of the covenant.

) David Gollaher has written that the rabbis added the procedure of periah to discourage men from trying to restore their foreskins: ‘ Once established, periah was deemed essential to circumcision ; if the mohel failed to cut away enough tissue, the operation was deemed insufficient to comply with God's covenant ’ and ‘ Depending on the strictness of individual rabbis, boys ( or men thought to have been inadequately cut ) were subjected to additional operations .’ In addition to milah ( the actual circumcision ) and priah, mentioned above, the Talmud mentions a third step, metzitzah, or squeezing some blood from the wound.

In Kiddushin 72b, Adda bar Ahavah of the third century, is said to be " sitting in the bosom of Abraham ," Likewise " In the world to come Abraham sits at the gate of Gehenna, permitting none to enter who bears the seal of the covenant " according to Rabbi Levi in Genesis Rabba 67.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

A third group explicitly called upon Arius and described the Son as unlike ( anhomoios ) the Father.

The first act sanity sequence ... and the third act chase ... are unlike anything that came before.

The energy of a Keesom interaction depends on the inverse sixth power of the distance, unlike the interaction energy of two spatially fixed dipoles, which depends on the inverse third power of the distance.

An interesting innovation was introduced in Russia in the judicial reform of Alexander II: unlike in modern jury trials, jurors decided not only whether the defendant was guilty or not guilty, but they had the third choice: " Guilty, but not to be punished ", since Alexander II believed that justice without morality is wrong.

Conversely, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean do not have single words for a thousand to the second, third, fifth power, etc., unlike English and many other European languages.

High quality oolong can be steeped several times from the same leaves and, unlike other teas, it improves with rebrewing: it is common to steep the same leaves three to five times, the third or fourth steeping usually being considered the best.

In contemporary digital video games, the player can be a vicarious spy, as in the Metal Gear, especially in the series ' third installment, Metal Gear Solid, unlike the games of the Third-Person Shooter genre, Syphon Filter, and Splinter Cell.

The Japanese version includes an exclusive third segment, " Navi Trackers " ( originally designed as the stand-alone game " Tetra's Trackers "), which contains spoken dialog for most of the characters, unlike other games in The Legend of Zelda series.

Some collectors consider this as a third series but since unlike all series it was not published in the official journal of the European Union, it is actually an amendment and not a new series.

During the interval between the fall of Gladstone's second government and the beginning of his third, in February 1886, Spencer became a convert to Irish Home Rule, unlike most of the other leading Whigs, who deserted to Liberal Unionism.

He declined to serve in Gladstone's third government, formed after Gladstone came out in favour of Irish Home Rule ( unlike Joseph Chamberlain, who accepted the Local Government Board but then resigned ), and after voting against the First Home Rule Bill became the leader of the Liberal Unionists.

) is considered the third distinct member of the Godhead ( Father, Son and Holy Ghost ), and to have a body of " spirit ," which makes him unlike the Father and the Son who are said to have bodies " as tangible as man's.

The third generation is not determined via figures unlike previous generation but New Confucianism from 1980.

However, unlike the third lane, officials did not allow non-HOV use at the end of construction in 1998, and avoided a repeat of the controversy.

If we know f < sub > 180 </ sub > for the amplifier at hand, the gain margin can be found approximately, but f < sub > 180 </ sub > then depends on the third and higher pole positions, as does the gain margin, unlike the estimate of phase margin, which is a two-pole estimate .</ ref > The procedure outlined in the Bode plot article is followed.

The third argument, unlike the first two, contains no non sequitur that Feinberg can see.

It was once the third most watched show on satellite and cable TV only beaten by Raw and certain soccer matches, but unlike in the USA, it never beat Monday Night Raw in the then head-to-head " Friday Night Wars " in the UK.

The University's Royal Charter, unlike those of other universities, provides for three sovereign bodies, the third one ( in addition to the usual Council and Senate ) being the Academic Advisory Council, which is a group of external academics that audits the academic staff.

The third set, which unlike the others was perforated, was produced on July 23.

The single was the third release from the album American Thighs but unlike the first two, failed to reach the Top 75 Singles Chart in the UK, peaking at # 110.

One unusual feature of this stadium is the fact that, unlike most multi-purpose stadiums-where the football field was laid either parallel to one of the foul lines or running from home plate to center field-the football field here was laid along a line running between first and third base.

If the batter already has two strikes, the foul tip is the third strike and the batter is out by strikeout ( unlike a foul ball, which ordinarily cannot count as the third strike ).

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

Especially the first half of the third verse:

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

The third method was, to our knowledge, successfully applied for the first time by C. Sheer and co-workers ( Ref. 2 ).

Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

It would be made in three waves -- the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

The eyeteeth ( third from the middle on top, counting each front tooth as the first ) beginning to protrude like fangs.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

however, the first belief stood for entire revision with a new third point added to the list.

The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate.

Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.

The Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a manager.

They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

and in the third place, it would cost a fortune to reproduce in the first place -- you've got six colors there including gold ''.

However, we sent a third vessel out, a much smaller and faster one than the first two.

Gershwin's first A episode introduces the two main " walking " themes in the " Allegretto grazioso " and develops a third theme in the " Subito con brio ".

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

He places the third verse first, after which he sings the usual first verse.

Affidavits may be written in the first or third person, depending on who drafted the document.

In three arduous campaigns, the first two of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenos ( great-uncle of Emperor Manuel Comnenos ), the Turks were defeated in detail in 1070 and driven across the Euphrates.