Benjamin () was the last-born of Jacob's twelve sons, and the second and last son of Rachel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition.

Jacob's name is changed to Israel, and by his wives Rachel and Leah and their handmaidens he has twelve sons, the ancestors of the twelve tribes of the Children of Israel.

The ancestors, however, retain their faith in God and God in each case gives a son – in Jacob's case, twelve sons, the foundation of the chosen Israelites.

Jacob's wives had twelve sons and one daughter:

The Jewish apocryphal book, The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, also states that this is the burial place of Jacob's twelve sons.

*" Jacob's Dream " and twelve drawings of the antique, Cambridge

Joseph is the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons and is labeled as a " Miracle Child " since his mother, Rachel, was believed to be barren.

Fowler argues that while Isaac and Jacob's brothers were excluded from the promise of the messiah, all twelve of Judah's brothers were the ancestors of the tribe from which the messiah would come.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

The offspring of Jacob's sons became the tribes of Israel following the Exodus, when the Israelites conquered and settled in the Land of Israel.

The account of Jacob's blessing of Joseph's sons is also seen as prophetic by Christian commentators.

( XII: 8, 16-17 ) Jacob's prophetic nature is evident from his foreknowledge of Joseph's future greatness ( XII: 6 ), his foreboding and response to the supposed death of Joseph ( XII: 13, 18 ) and in his response to the sons ' plight in Egypt.

The mothers of Jacob's sons are:

* Simeon ( Hebrew Bible ), one of Jacob's sons

The Book of Genesis tells how Joseph was the 11th of Jacob's 12 sons and Rachel's firstborn.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

Ishmael is further mentioned alongside the patriarchs who had been given revelations ( II: 136 ) and Jacob's sons promise to follow the faith of their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", when testifying their faith ( II: 133 ).

Leah is the mother of six of Jacob's sons, including his first four ( Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah ), and later two more ( Issachar and Zebulun ), and a daughter ( Dinah ).

Jacob's older sons, however, felt that their father loved Joseph and Benjamin, Jacob's youngest son, more than them.

When one of Jacob's sons returned to Canaan with the good news of Joseph and Benjamin in Egypt, he came with a shirt that Joseph had given him, which he had told him to cast over their father's face, to remove Jacob's blindness and grief.

Once Jacob's sight had been restored, the whole family began their trek to Egypt, to meet Joseph and the other sons again.

Simon and Levi, Jacob's sons, instigate the discord between Jacob and the men of the King of Shechem out of fear for their own prosperity, even though Dinah tells them the truth.

The name conferred upon a person in early Biblical times was generally connected with some circumstance of that person's birth: several of Jacob's sons are recorded as having received their names in this manner ( Genesis 30 ).

Generally, it was the mother who chose the name, as in the account of Jacob's sons, but there were occasions on which the father chose the child's name, for instance in Genesis 16: 15, 17: 19, and 21: 2.

It's military consists of a famous order of Jacoban paladins known as Jacob's Sword.

In the Easter Rising of 1916 Kearney fought at Jacob's biscuit factory under Thomas MacDonagh, abandoning an Abbey Theatre tour in England in order to take part in the Rising.

In order to climb up onto the course participants usually must climb, such as by using a cargo net or Jacob's Ladder, which could be made of rope, or an artificial climbing wall.

In order to do this he has to go to Jacob for advice, but is unable to find Jacob's cabin, so they proceed to the Barracks.

) Afterwards, Leah became fertile again and gave birth to Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah, Jacob's first and only daughter.

Jacob then made a further move while Rachel was pregnant ; near Bethlehem, Rachel went into labor and died as she gave birth to her second son, Benjamin ( Jacob's twelfth son ).

The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Issachar, which some textual scholars attribute to different sources-one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist ; the first being that it derives from ish sakar, meaning man of hire, in reference to Leah's hire of Jacob's sexual favours for the price of some mandrakes ; the second being that it derives from yesh sakar, meaning there is a reward, in reference to Leah's opinion that the birth of Issachar was a divine reward for giving her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob as a concubine.

Rachel was Jacob's divinely intended wife and could hypothetically have given birth to Joseph as Jacob's firstborn with rights of primogeniture.

The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Reuben, which textual scholars attribute to different sources-one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist ; the first explanation given by the Torah is that the name refers to God having witnessed Leah's misery, in regard to her status as the less-favourite of Jacob's wives, implying that the etymology of Reuben is that it derives from raa beonyi, meaning he has seen my misery ; the second explanation is that the name refers to Leah's hope that Reuben's birth will make Jacob love her, implying a derivation from yeehabani, meaning he will love me.

Hans ' great-great grandson, David Jacob Eisenhower ( 1863 – 1942 ), was Dwight's father, and was a college-educated engineer, despite his own father Jacob's urging to stay on the family farm.

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 ).

Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Allon Bachuth ( אלון בכות ), " Oak of Weepings " ( Genesis 35: 8 ).

When Laban planned to deceive Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel, the Midrash recounts that both Jacob and Rachel suspected that Laban would pull such a trick ; Laban was known as the " Aramean " ( deceiver ), and changed Jacob's wages ten times during his employ ( Genesis 31: 7 ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite see Jacob's dream as a prophecy of the Incarnation of the Logos, whereby Jacob's ladder is understood as a symbol of the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), who, according to Orthodox theology, united heaven and earth in her womb.

Michael Willmann ( 1630 – 1706 ), " Jacob's Ladder | the Dream of Jacob "

** St. James's church ( often mistakenly called St Jacob's ), a basilica from the 14th century, with monumental wall paintings and Gothic stalls

In the film Jacob's Ladder ( film ), Jacob Singer is seen with The Stranger on the subway.

Albourne, Ansty, Bolney, Clayton, Ditchling, Ditchling Common, East Chiltington, Goddards Green, Hickstead, Jacob's Post, Keymer, Plumpton, Plumpton Green, Sayers Common, Streat, Twineham, Westmeston, Wivelsfield ( which has given its name to a railway station in Burgess Hill ), and Wivelsfield Green are other nearby villages.

The UK touring production circa 1983-1987 ( produced by Bill Kenwright ), included an additional song " I Don't Think I'm Wanted Back At Home ", which was originally part of Jacob's Journey.

Owing to its central position, no less than to the presence in the neighborhood of places hallowed by the memory of Abraham ( Genesis 12: 6, 7 ; 34: 5 ), Jacob's Well ( Genesis 33: 18-19 ; 34: 2, etc.

Progressive rock groups and musicians during the 1970s in particular experimented with program music, among which was Rush's " Jacob's Ladder " ( 1980 ), which shows clear influences of Smetana's Má vlast (" My Homeland ") ( 1874-1879 ).

The traditional scholarly view is summarized in Jacob's Law Dictionary Peter-Pence ( Denarii Sancti Petri ) Otherwise called in the Saxon Romefeoh ( the fee due to Rome ), it was a tribute or rather an alms given by Ina, King of the West Saxons, in his pilgrimage to Rome in 725.

Anund Jacob's father had previously applied for Sigfrid of Sweden at the disappointment of the German mission in Hamburg-Bremen ( and the Heathen protests centered at Gamla Uppsala as well ), just as Anund's successor Emund would opt for Osmundus.

In the 1590s, Alshich ordained Hayyim Vital, and between the years 1594 and 1599, Jacob Berab II ordained seven more scholars: Moses Galante, Elazar Azikri, Moses Berab ( Jacob's brother ), Abraham Gabriel, Yom Tov Tzahalon, Hiyya Rofe and Jacob Abulafia.

Jacob's Room, Subotnick's multimedia opera chamber opera ( directed by Herbert Blau with video imagery by Steina and Woody Vasulka, featuring Joan La Barbara ), received its premiere in Philadelphia in April 1993 under the auspices of The American Music Theater Festival.

The original work by Baker had been based on Gerard Langbaine the Younger's Account of the English Dramatick Poets ( 1691 ), Giles Jacob's Poetical Register ( 1719 ), Thomas Whincop's List of all the Dramatic Authors ( printed with his tragedy of Scanderbeg, 1747 ) and the manuscripts of Thomas Coxeter.

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