tells the story that Jacob bought the birthright from his brother Esau for a mess of pottage (Genesis 25:34), and his wife, Rachel bought his uncle Laban in exchange for fourteen years of work. (After the first seven Laban deceived him, handing him his daughter Leah. Seven years later would give Rachel).
GOD renamed Jacob to Israel (Genesis 35:9-11) after this star in a struggle against an angel (Elohim-God) (Genesis 32:23-30), and would become the father of the Israelites.
Jacob, according to tradition, probably born in Lahai-roi, some twenty years after the marriage between Isaac and Rebecca, when that time his father was sixty years old (Genesis 25:26), and his grandfather Abraham one hundred and sixty years. Like his father, Jacob was calm disposition, because, according to the story, he was an ish tam, translated as simple or pure, in the sense of perfect simplicity. He also said that lay in store which, interpreted by many biblical scholars, is a signal to be someone very studious.
Jacob is a figure who belongs to the authentic folk tradition that lives in the imagination of a people given to grazing. Embodies the true Israel, the historical and prophetic Israel, which is continually sinning and suffering, but always looking for the birthright and blessing.
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