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• JacobPeople

  Jacob is a patriarch of the Israelite people in the Book of Genesis, the son of Isaac and the younger twin brother of Esau. God gave him the new name "Israel," and his twelve sons became the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• IsaacPeople

  Isaac is a patriarch in the Book of Genesis, the son of promise born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age. He is best known for nearly being offered as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, and he was the father of Jacob and Esau.

• Joseph (Son of Jacob)People

  Joseph is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the son of Jacob and Rachel. Sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, he rose to become the country's chief administrator and saved his family during a famine. He is distinct from Joseph of Nazareth, the legal father of Jesus.

• Cave of MachpelahBible

  The Cave of Machpelah was the cave in a field before Mamre, near Hebron, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite in order to bury his wife Sarah. It became the burial place of the patriarchs and their wives.

• EnochPeople

  Enoch is an antediluvian figure who appears in the genealogy of Genesis 5. The seventh generation from Adam and the father of Methuselah, he is recorded as having walked with God and as having been taken by God without seeing death.

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Verses in the King James Version 4, showing 4

• Acts 2:29

  Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

• Acts 7:8

  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

• Acts 7:9

  And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

• Hebrews 7:4

  Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

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