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 -Son of Isaac, and the twin brother of Esau
     GE 25:24-26; JOS 24:4; 1CH 1:34; AC 7:8 

 -Ancestor of Jesus
     MT 1:2 

 -Given in answer to prayer
     GE 25:21 

 -Obtains Esau's birthright for just one bowl of stew
     GE 25:29-34; HEB 12:16 

 -Fradulently obtains his father's blessing
     GE 27:1-29; HEB 11:20 

 -Esau seeks to kill, escapes to Padan-aram
     GE 27:41-46; 28:1-5; HO 12:12 

 -His vision of the ladder
     GE 28:10-22 

 -God confirms the covenant of Abraham to
     GE 28:13-22; 35:9-15; 1CH 16:13-18 

 -Sojourns in Haran with his uncle, Laban
     GE 29:30; HO 12:12 

 -Serves fourteen years for Leah and Rachel
     GE 29:15-30; HO 12:12 

 -Sharp practice of, with the flocks and herds of Laban
     GE 30:32-43 

 -Dissatisfied with Laban's treatment and returns to the land of
  Canaan
     GE 31 

 -Meets angels of God on the journey, and calls the place
  "Mahanaim,"
     GE 32:1,2 

 -Dreads to meet Esau; sends him presents; wrestles with an
  angel
     GE 32 

 -Name of, changed to "Israel,"
     GE 32:28; 35:10 

 -Reconciliation of, with Esau
     GE 33:4 

 -Journeys to Succoth
     GE 33:17 

 -Journeys to Shalem, where he purchase a parcel of ground from
  Hamor and erects an altar
     GE 33:18-20 

 -His daughter, Dinah, is raped
     GE 34 

 -Returns to Beth-el, where he builds an altar, and erects and
  dedicates a pillar
     GE 35:1-7 

 -Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dies, and is buried at Beth-el
     GE 35:8 

 -Journeys to Ephrath; Benjamin is born to; Rachel dies; and is
  "buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem,"
     GE 35:16-19; 48:7 

 -Erects a monument at Rachel's grave
     GE 35:20 

 -The incest of his son, Reuben, with his concubine, Bilhah
     GE 35:22 

 -List of the names of his twelve sons
     GE 35:23-26 

 -Returns to Arbah, the city of his father
     GE 35:27 

 -Lives in the land of Canaan
     GE 37:1 

 -His partiality for his son, Joseph, and the consequent
  jealousy of his other sons
     GE 37:3,4 

 -Joseph's prophetic dream concerning
     GE 37:9-11 

 -His grief over the loss of Joseph
     GE 37:34,35 

 -Sends to Egypt to buy corn (grain)
     GE 42:1,2; 43:1-14 

 -His grief over the detention of Simeon and the demand for
  Benjamin to be taken into Egypt
     GE 42:36 

 -His love for Benjamin
     GE 43:14; 44:29 

 -Hears that Joseph is still alive
     GE 45:26-28 

 -Moves to Egypt
     GE 46:1-7; 1SA 12:8; PS 105:23; AC 7:14,15 

 -The list of his children and grandchildren who went down into
  Egypt
     GE 46:8-27 

 -Meets Joseph
     GE 46:28-34 

 -Pharaoh receives him, and is blessed by Jacob
     GE 47:1-10 

 -The land of Goshen assigned to
     GE 47:11,12,27 

 -Lives in Egypt for seventeen years
     GE 47:28 

 -Exacts a promise from Joseph to bury him with his forefathers
     GE 47:29-31 

 -His benediction upon Joseph and his two sons
     GE 48:15-22 

 -Gives the land of the Amorites to Joseph
     GE 48:22; JOH 4:5 

 -His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons
   .Upon Reuben
       GE 49:3,4 
   .Simeon and Levi
       GE 49:5-7 
   .Judah
       GE 49:8-12 
   .Zebulun
       GE 49:13 
   .Issachar
       GE 49:14,15 
   .Dan
       GE 49:16-18 
   .Gad
       GE 49:19 
   .Asher
       GE 49:20 
   .Naphtali
       GE 49:21 
   .Joseph
       GE 49:22-26 
   .Benjamin
       GE 49:27 

 -Charges his sons to bury him in the field of Machpelah
     GE 49:29,30 

 -Death of
     GE 49:33 

 -Body of, embalmed
     GE 50:2 

 -40 Days mourning for
     GE 50:3 

 -Burial of
     GE 50:4-13 

 -Descendants of
     GE 29:31-35; 30:1-24; 35:18,22-26; 46:8-27; EX 1:1-5; 1CH
    9 2:9 

 -Prophecies concerning himself and his descendants
     GE 25:23; 27:28,29; 28:10-15; 31:3; 35:9-13; 46:3; DE 1:8;
    PS 105:10,11 

 -His wealth
     GE 36:6,7 

 -The well of
     JOH 4:5-30