In contrast to Abraham — who illuminates the world with knowledge of God and earns the respect of the inhabitants of the land of Canaan — and Isaac — who continues his father's teachings and also lives in relative harmony with his neighbors — Jacob experiences many personal struggles both in the land and out of it-including the hatred of his brother, Esau ; the deception of his father-in-law, Laban ; the rape of his daughter, Dinah ; the death of his favorite wife, Rachel ; and the sale of his son, Joseph.

Noah held this priesthood, as did Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and it remained on earth until the time of Moses, who received it " under the hand of his father-in-law, Jethro " and it would have been given to the Israelites if they had been worthy of it and had not " hardened their hearts ".

Hubbell's father-in-law, Isaac Cooper.

As such he is brother-in-law to Isaac and both father-in-law and uncle to Jacob.

His principal teacher was his father-in-law, Isaac ha-Kohen Shapiro, rabbi of Kraków.

Isaac Scott, an ex-Strangite, claimed that Caleb Barnes, Strang's former law partner, said that he and Strang had fabricated them from a tea kettle belonging to Strang's father-in-law, as part of a land speculation scheme they had hatched.

William Carothers replaced his father-in-law, Isaac " Ike " Sims as committeeman in 1976.

He is mentioned in documents for the first time in 1569, as having business relations with the communal director Isaac Rofe ( Lékarz ), subsequently his father-in-law.

* In Isaac Asimov's Robot series, Earth's population lives in large hyperstructures simply called Cities.

Allmusic claims some have argued that Isaac Hayes and Barry White were playing what would be called disco music as early as 1971.

Abraham was succeeded by two of his sons, Isaac and Ishmael, while Moses was succeeded by his brother Aaron and Jesus by two prophets whom the Qur ' an mentions in the chapter called " Ya Sin ".

Isaac Watts has been called " the father of English hymnody ," but Erik Routley sees him more as " the liberator of English hymnody ," because his hymns, and hymns like them, moved worshipers beyond singing only Old Testament psalms, inspiring congregations and revitalizing worship.

It was prophesied to the patriarch Abraham that he would have a son and that his name should be called Isaac.

The post-biblical Jewish interpretations often elaborate the role of Isaac beyond the biblical description and largely focus on Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac, called the aqedah (" binding ").

As a reward for his act of faith in one God, he was promised that Isaac, his second son, would inherit the Land of Israel ( then called Canaan ).

And He is called Angel and Apostle ; for He declares whatever we ought to know, and is sent forth to declare whatever is revealed ; as our Lord Himself says, “ He that heareth Me, heareth Him that sent Me .” From the writings of Moses also this will be manifest ; for thus it is written in them, “ And the Angel of God spoke to Moses, in a flame of fire out of the bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of thy fathers ; go down into Egypt, and bring forth My people .” And if you wish to learn what follows, you can do so from the same writings ; for it is impossible to relate the whole here.

Shira Schoenberg observes that " The first mention of mourners saying Kaddish at the end of the service is in a thirteenth century halakhic writing by Isaac Ben Moses of Vienna and called the Or Zarua literally, " Light is Sown ".

Since Sir Isaac Newton originated the concept of viscosity, the study of liquids with strain rate dependent viscosity is also often called Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics.

In the late 1930s, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and a critical mass of new writers emerged in New York City in a group called the Futurians, including Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Judith Merril, and others.

Isaac Asimov, whose specialties included both science fiction and humor and who was a self-described " punster ", wrote a short story called " Shah Guido G .", referring to the story's Atlantean ruler.

Hasidim, though usually ethnically Ashkenazi, usually use liturgies with varying degrees of Sephardic influence, such as Nusach Sefard and Nusach Ari, in order to follow the order of the prayers set by Rabbi Isaac Luria, often called " Ari HaKadosh ", or " The Holy Lion ".

( A project called Halacha Brura, founded by Abraham Isaac Kook, presents the Talmud and the halachic codes side by side in book form so as to enable this kind of collation.

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.

During the entire 18th century, the dominant view with regard to heat and light was that put forth by Isaac Newton, called the Newtonian hypothesis, which states that light and heat are forms of matter attracted or repelled by other forms of matter, with forces analogous to gravitation or to chemical affinity.

Isaac and Jacob Le Maire established the Australische Compagnie ( Australian Company ) in 1615 to trade with Terra Australis, which they called " Australia ".

Isaac Asimov called him " hard-luck Scheele " because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit.

The Galactic Empire series ( also called the Empire novels or trilogy ) is a science fiction sequence of three of Isaac Asimov's earliest novels, and extended to one short story.

It was deemed favorable to settlement, and Brigham Young called Isaac Morley and George Washington Bradley to organize about fifty families to move south and settle " San Pete.

The area is named after Isaac Van Nuys, who was of Dutch descent and a participant in a ranching enterprise called the San Fernando Homestead Association, a group that purchased most of the southern San Fernando Valley ( south of present-day Roscoe Blvd.

It was here in the Central Research Laboratories ( generally known as " CRL ") that Isaac Shoenberg developed ( 1934 ) the all-electronic 405-line television system ( called the Marconi-EMI system, used by the BBC from 1936 until closedown of the Crystal Palace 405-line transmissions in 1985 ).

Like the county, the new high school was named after Isaac Newton Blackford, and is called Blackford High School.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

Studies of alchemy also influenced Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.

It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery ( which he did not name or formally describe ).

Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.

Representations of angels on sarcophagi and on objects such as lamps and reliquaries of that period also show them without wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument ( also known as " Newton's bucket ") was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies.

They began corresponding in the late 1820s and met for the first time in March 1830, when Isaac D ' Israeli dined at Bulwer-Lytton ’ s house ( also present that evening were Charles Pelham Villiers and Alexander Cockburn.

Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.

Here, one version of the Gospel of Barnabas also quotes Jesus as saying that the sacrificed son of Abraham was Ishmael not Isaac, conforming to Islamic belief but disagreeing with Jewish and Christian belief.

These works also influenced contemporary Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and provided one of the foundations for Englishman Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

Isaac Asimov has also speculated that in the event that he had not been killed while in the service of the British Empire, Moseley might very well have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916, which was not awarded to anyone that year ( along with the prize for Chemistry ).

Like his father, Isaac also deceived Abimelech about his wife and also got into the well business.

In this testament, Isaac also talks with the crowds on the subjects of priesthood, asceticism, and the moral life.

The rabbis also thought that the reason for the death of Sarah was the news of the intended sacrifice of Isaac.

In the Qur ' an, it later narrates that Abraham also praised God for giving him Ishmael and Isaac in his old age ( XIV: 39-41 ).

These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

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.

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

In numerical analysis, Newton's method ( also known as the Newton – Raphson method ), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots ( or zeroes ) of a real-valued function.

During World War II, he did aeronautical engineering for the U. S. Navy, also recruiting Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp to work at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania.