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JacobInsight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
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JACOB
(Jaʹcob) [One Seizing the Heel; Supplanter].
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JacobInsight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
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Furthermore, Jehovah declared that, contrary to custom, the older would serve the younger. Accordingly, the second-born Jacob was holding the heel of Esau at their birth; hence the name Jacob, meaning “One Seizing the Heel.” (Ge 25:22-26)
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