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Bible Verses About Jacob

This collection includes 50 passages about Jacob. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

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And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

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And Jacob went out from Beer–sheba, and went toward Haran.

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And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

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And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

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And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan–aram, and blessed him.

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And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.

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Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

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And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

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And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

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And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

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And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

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For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

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And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

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By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

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And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

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And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

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And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

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And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.

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For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

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Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

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And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

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And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

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And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

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And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan–aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

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And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

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And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

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And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

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By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.

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And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

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And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

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And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father.

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