* 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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.

Among Isaac's children was the follow-up Israelite patriarch Jacob, who too is venerated an Islamic prophet.

According to the compilation hypothesis, the formulaic use of the word toledoth ( generations ) indicates that Genesis chapter 11, verse 27 to chapter 25, verse 19 is Isaac's record through Abraham's death ( with Ishmael's record appended ), and Genesis chapter 25, verse 19 to chapter 37, verse 2 is Jacob's record through Isaac's death ( with Esau's records appended ).

After a juxtaposition of Isaac's concert dates, on his alleged adventure, and his father's travel itinerary it is apparent that they were traveling together.

It is suggested that she realized prophetically that Isaac's blessings would go to Jacob, since she was told before the twins ' birth that the older son would serve the younger.

A conservative interpretation is that, at Isaac's burial, Jacob obtained the records of Esau, who had been married 80 years prior, and incorporated them into his own family records, and that Moses augmented and published them.

With Sir Isaac's assistance, it is used to secretly build an advanced spaceship that is much faster than any other vessel in existence, with revolutionary weapons and defenses also derived from the new technology.

John is recorded as citing two main reasons for choosing Manuel over his older brother Isaac: these were Isaac's irascibility, and the courage that Manuel had shown on campaign at Neocaesareia.

() There is no mention of how or when Isaac's wife Rebekah died, nor of Jacob's wife Leah, but they are included in the list of those that had been buried in Machpelah in Jacob's final words to the children of Israel:

Emily is curious about Isaac's new girlfriend, and after several meetings between the two couples, including one where Emily reads out portions of Jill's new book about her marriage with Isaac, Yale leaves Emily to resume his relationship with Mary.

Also, Jah is referenced many times in Damian Marley's song Road to Zion and in the songs of Costa Rican singer, Noah, such as " If you don't believe in Jah, we can not be together " It also appears in Gregory Isaac's Night Nurse, " Only you can quench this Jah thirst.

Little is known about Isaac's early life ( or indeed his real name ), but it is probable that he was born in Flanders, likely in Brabant.

Abraham's willingness to give up his own son Isaac is seen, in this view, as foreshadowing the willingness of God the Father to sacrifice his Son ; also contrasted is Isaac's submission in the whole ordeal with Christ's, the two choosing to lay down their own lives in order for the will of God to be accomplished, as no struggle is mentioned in the Genesis account.

One thing to note is that the Qur ' anic account of the annunciation of Isaac's birth differs sharply from the Biblical narrative, which states that three angels all came in human form to Abraham's household and ate.

Regarding the word " Mitzachek " ( again in Gen. 21: 9 ) The Jewish Study Bible by Oxford University Press says this word in this particular context is associated with ; " Playing is another pun on Isaac's name ( cf.

Various modern historians writing on Shaka and the Zulu point to the uncertain nature of Fynn and Isaac's accounts of Shaka's reign.

Still, occasionally a halakhic writing, Gan Bosem, is quoted as his ; a decision of his is found in TaSHBaẒ, § 219, in R. Isaac's Or Zarua ', and in Meïr Rothenburg's collection of responsa ; and he is found in social intercourse with celebrated halakists of his age.

The two main features of this short story about Isaac McCaslin's childhood are, first, its portrayal of the first steps in the development of Isaac's beliefs about nature and the land, and second, its portrayal of the history of Sam Fathers, whose betrayal at the hands of his father, Ikkemotubbe, and subsequent upbringing as a slave mirrors several other familial displacements throughout the book.

Writer Erik Larson argued in his book Isaac's Storm that Cline did not warn anyone in Galveston prior to the hurricane warning.

As Emperor Manuel had died in the meantime ( 1180 ), nobody seems to have greatly cared about Isaac's fate, and he remained a prisoner for a long time, which seems to have done nothing for improving his disposition in general.

: If Galveston had any lingering anxiety about its failure to erect a seawall Isaac's 1891 article would have eased them.

During his quest, he encounters several people: Julia Laforeze, a young witch in exile who turns out to be Isaac's sister, Trevor Belmont, who distrusts him for being a Devil Forgemaster, Zead, a kindly holyman who provides him with reliable information about Isaac's whereabouts, and St. Germain, a mysterious time traveller who presses him to abandon his quest, but eventually leaves him alone with some cryptic comments about a " new destiny " having emerged for him.

Larson's next books include Isaac's Storm ( 1999 ), about the experiences of Isaac Cline during the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 ; and The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America ( 2003 ), about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. H. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair.

Genesis 27: 43 makes Haran the home of Laban and connects it with Isaac and Jacob: it was the home of Isaac's wife Rebekah, and their son Jacob spent twenty years in Haran working for his uncle Laban ( cf.

Men in the Hanson family are usually called by their middle names-most notably band members Isaac and Taylor, along with brother Joshua (" Mac " Mackenzie ), father Clarke (" Walker "), Isaac's sons Clarke (" Everett ") and James (" Monroe "), Taylor's son Jordan (" Ezra "), and Zac's son John (" Shepherd ").

Alongside Isaac's grave are the graves of some of the other Qur ' anic / Biblical patriarchs and their wives: Abraham and Sarah and Jacob and Leah.

However, some modern Arabs in Southern Palestine believe their tribes and houses to be of Isaac's blood line.

Sailing the oceans of Weyard on a ship with their new companion Piers, Felix and his party embark on an epic expedition while pursued by Isaac's party.

According to account given in Genesis ( Chapter 28: 10-22 ), Jacob was fleeing from his elder twin brother Esau, whom he had tricked out of receiving their father Isaac's blessing of the first-born.

When the presumed redactor came to edit together their writings, Isaac's continued presence would thus need to be explained.

They branched into finance in 1802 with the founding of their own bank, Isaac Camondo & Cie. On Isaac's death in 1832 his brother Abraham Salomon Camondo inherited the bank.

The couple split up suddenly and Raymond began a relationship ( a marriage, some say ) with Isaac's daughter.

Compared to those of Abraham and Jacob, Isaac's story relates fewer incidents of his life.

Genesis, however, ascribes the laughter to Isaac's parents, Abraham and Sarah, rather than El.

At some point in Isaac's youth, his father Abraham brought him to mount Moriah.

He called his son Esau and directed him to procure some venison for him, in order to receive Isaac's blessing.

While Esau was hunting, Jacob, after listening to his mother's advice, deceived his blind father by misrepresenting himself as Esau and thereby obtained his father's blessing, such that Jacob became Isaac's primary heir and Esau was left in an inferior position.

Isaac's willingness to follow God's command at the cost of his death has been a model for many Jews who preferred martyrdom to violation of the Jewish law.

Rabbinic literature also linked Isaac's blindness in old age, as stated in the Bible, to the sacrificial binding: Isaac's eyes went blind because the tears of angels present at the time of his sacrifice fell on Isaac's eyes.

Disguised as Esau, Jacob entered Isaac's room.

" Rashi, on says Isaac's suspicions were aroused even more, because Esau never used the personal name of God.

states Isaac's blessing: " Therefore God give thee of the dew of heavens, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: Let people serve thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

After Isaac sent Jacob away to find a wife, Esau realized his own Canaanite wives were evil in his father's eyes and so he took a daughter of Isaac's half-brother, Ishmael, as another wife.

In, Jacob uses deception, motivated by his mother Rebekah, to lay claim on his father Isaac's blessing that was inherently due to the firstborn, Esau.

'" Rebekah then instructs Jacob in an elaborate deception through which Jacob pretends to be Esau, in order to steal from Esau Isaac's blessing and birthright — which in theory Esau had agreed to give to Jacob.

Jacob having fled for his life, leaves behind the wealth of Isaac's flocks and land and tents in Esau's hands.

Following a service at Saint Isaac's Cathedral, she was interred next to her husband Alexander III in the Peter and Paul Cathedral on 28 September 2006, 140 years after her first arrival to Russia and almost 78 years after her death.

The transfer of her remains in 2006 was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies, including at St. Isaac's officiated by the Patriarch Alexis II.