On the latter Jacob Grimm does not make a direct association to the elves, but other researchers see a possible connection to the shining light elves of Old Norse.

At God's command Abraham descends from his home into the land of Canaan, given to him by God, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob.

In the narrative, Jacob does not trust some of his older sons ( XII: 11, 18, 23 ) because they do not respect him.

Later that year he also portrayed Jacob Marley in a 1977 BBC television adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which starred Michael Hordern as Scrooge ; Sergio Angelini, writing for the British Film Institute considered that " although never frightening, he does exert a strong sense of melancholy, his every move and inflection seemingly tinged with regret and remorse ".

Gunkel's observation that if, however, we consider figures like Abraham, Issac, and Jacob to be actual persons with no original mythic foundations, that does not at all mean that they are historical figures ... For even if, as may well be assumed, there was once a man call ' Abraham ,' everyone who knows the history of legends is sure that the legend is in no position at the distance of so many centuries to preserve a picture of the personal piety of Abraham.

In the Biblical account, Joseph was the brother to Benjamin, the other son of Rachel and Jacob, and the eponym of the Tribe of Benjamin, which was located on the immediate south of the tribe of Joseph ; the birth of Benjamin does not appear in the passage in which the births of the other sons of Jacob occur, but instead appears elsewhere, with Benjamin being born only once Jacob had returned to Canaan.

God hearkens to Leah's tears and prayers and allows her to marry Jacob even before Rachel does.

* Jacob & Youngs v. Kent, 230 N. Y. 239 ( 1921 ), substantial performance of a contract does not lead to a right to terminate, only damages.

Though the biblical text itself does not attest to this, Rabbinic sources also identify him as the father of Bilhah and Zilpah, the two concubines with whom Jacob also has children ( Midrash Raba, Genesis 74: 13 and elsewhere ).

Furthermore, since Yiddish is derived from German, German sources occasionally note that Yiddish yekk ( e ) is largely homophone with jeck ( e ), the Rhenish dialectal form of Standard German Geck of uncertain origin but in contexts relating German jeck ( e ) to Yiddish yekk ( e ) attributed to patriarch Jacob in the Bible as does above-mentioned Yekkef theory.

In 1969, plans to extend the freeway portion of SR 78 east from the Broadway interchange through Escondido were delayed by Caltrans director Jacob Dekema due to a lack of funding ; however, these plans fell through, as the bypass does not exist today.

Jacob's Well does appear by name in the New Testament's Book of John ( 4: 5f ), where it is recorded that Jesus " came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

He concludes: " The Afghan ’ s accounts of Jacob and Esau, of Moses and the Exodus, of the Wars of the Israelites with the Amalekites and conquest of Palestine, of the Ark of the Covenant and of the election of Saul to the Kingdom, etc., etc., are clearly founded on the Biblical records, and clearly indicate a knowledge of the Old Testament, which if it does not prove the presence of the Christians at least corroborates their assertion that the Afghans were readers of the Pentateuch.

Hurley leaves jail in a taxi, and rides along with Jacob who asks Hurley why he does not want to return to the Island.

Dr. Donaldson, Theresa's fiancé, has a good motive for the crime, as does Jacob Tanios, also a doctor.

Unlike Warhurst, his rank does not affect his " communication skills " with his fellow officers, including Captain Jacob Angelus.

The literal reading of the text does not include an argument made by Moses, in a similar manner to other characters, however, Rashi describes him as blaming God for the people's sin, and therefore interprets the prayer to be more similar to those said by Abraham and Jacob.

While he was reading the "' Ein Ya ' aqob " by Jacob ibn Habib, he came to the conclusion that the vowels and accents did not exist in the time of the Talmudists, and that the Zohar, speaking as it does of vowels and accents, must necessarily be of later composition.

Inside the cabin, Locke does not meet Jacob, but rather Christian Shephard ( John Terry ) and Claire.

When Katy, Jacob, and Katy ’ s father got to the mill, he takes them into a room where he does doctoring.

John A. Myers immediately platted an Addition on the northwest, G. W. Yeager an Addition on the southwest, Jacob Cox sold lots by metes and bounds on the south and L. J. Griggs Addition on the north, but this plat was never recorded.

The most prominent tosafist immediately after Jacob Tam was his pupil and relative Isaac ben Samuel ha-Zaḳen ( RI ) of Dampierre, whose tosafot form a part of the Tosafot Yeshanim ( see below ).

He immediately asked for William Haley to second Jacob from the BBC to reprise his advisory role, this time under the title of Chief Staff Officer.

Written as " a work for teenage girls ( scored for first and second soprano and alto )", The Flower Queen was performed first on March 11, 1853 by the young ladies of Jacob Abbott's Springer Institute, and almost immediately repeated by Root's students at the Rutgers Female Institute, and was praised by R. Storrs Willis.

Governor Sloughter was initially opposed to immediately executing Leisler and his son-in-law Jacob Milborne, preferring to defer the decision to the king.

Jacob had scarcely left the room when Esau returned from the hunt to prepare his game and receive the blessing.

* 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U. S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

* May 20 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U. S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

Accordingly, it must be that Abraham, together with his seed ( that is, those who fear God and believe in Him ), will receive it at the resurrection of the just .” In another place Irenaeus also explained that the blessing to Jacob “ belongs unquestionably to the times of the kingdom when the righteous will bear rule, after their rising from the dead.

* May 20-Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive United States patent # 139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim jeans.

Turn, O Jacob, and receive her: ... Give not your glory to another, your privileges to an alien race.

Jackson continued to receive little actual support and was replaced by the Reverend Jacob Rice in 1709.

This reflects the belief of Jewish martyrs who died expecting that: " after our death in this fashion Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will receive us and all our forefathers will praise us " ( 4 Maccabees 13: 17 ).

In August 1948, Jacob had joined the BBC monitoring service at Caversham, but in February 1951 he was " suddenly refused establishment rights, which meant he would receive no pension.

Through deception, Jacob becomes the heir instead of Esau and gains his father'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.

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 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.

Rebekah later abets Jacob in receiving his father's blessing disguised as Esau.

In Genesis it is written that when Jacob was dead, " Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him.

His son Jacob Emden served as rabbi in Emden and followed in his father's footsteps in combating the Sabbatean movement.

He had his father's eye for women, and in 1920 met Mrs. Richard Peabody ( née Mary Phelps Jacob ), six years his senior.

Image worship existed in the time of Jacob, from the account of Rachel taking images along with her on leaving her father's house, which is given in the Book of Genesis.

* Joseph von Führich – Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd

When they met Jacob implored Eliphaz not to kill him, but Eliphaz challenged that he had his father's instructions to fulfill.

On the death of Caroline's brother-in-law John Jacob Astor III in 1890, William Waldorf Astor inherited his father's share of the Astor holdings and, titularly, became the head of the Astor family.

Jacob Leisler's son was in London, attempting to have the attainder against his father's estate reversed.

Held began working in the garment industry, then found work as a singer in Jewish theatres in Paris and, later, after her father's death, London, where her roles included the title role in a production by Jacob Adler of Abraham Goldfaden's Shulamith ; she was also in Goldfaden's ill-fated Paris troupe, whose cashier stole their money before they ever played publicly.

His family was Irish, of mixed Italian and Spanish / Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin on his father's side ( his grandfather Jacob Genese, properly Ginesi, had adopted the family name Bernal of his paternal grandmother around 1837 ).

He had a half-brother, Jacob Haight Morrison, IV ( 1905 – 1974 ), son of his father's first marriage to the former Eloise Yancy ( 1876 – 1905 ) of Jonesville in Catahoula Parish.

The main source of information on Centlivre's early life is Giles Jacob, who claimed that he had received an account of her life directly from her ( published in The Poetical Register ( 1719 )); however, there is little biographical information contained in this account about her early life, although she gave her father's last name as Freeman.

In Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd, Joseph von Führich attempts to recapture the mood of Perugino and Raphael, 1836 ( Österreichische Galerie, Vienna )

He was born at his father's house in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London, son of a Swiss immigrant and jeweller, Francis Jacob Grose ( d. 1769 ), and his wife, Anne ( d. 1773 ), daughter of Thomas Bennett of Greenford in Middlesex.

Helam's son, Jacob, is interested more in the ways of the world, including the lovely Laneah, and when his abilities as an artisan bring an offer to work for the wealthy and powerful Kohor, he jumps at the chance and is estranged from his father's house.

His grandfather on his father's side, Jacob E. Seibert was born in Bavaria, Germany and his grandmother on his father's side can be traced back to Switzerland.

In Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd, Joseph von Führich attempted to recapture the mood of Perugino and Raphael, 1836 ( Österreichische Galerie, Vienna ).