Examples of using "Jacó" in a sentence and their english translations:
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.
Daniel is the only child of Jacob.
But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.
And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.
And she gave him Bala in marriage: who, when her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.
And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban, the son of Nachor? They said: We know him.
And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice wept.
Zelpha also bore another.
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded. And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel adored God, turning to the bed's head.
He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.
And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and his son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.
And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob, behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter.
Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.
And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.
And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.
And he departed from him.
Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.
And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother.
So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.
But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward became laban's; and they of the first time Jacob's. And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses.
But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great. And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day.
Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
Iacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.
Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel, your father:
And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.
And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.
And Laban called it 'The witness heap'; and Jacob, 'The hillock of testimony': each of them according to the propriety of his language.
He took it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him, and said: Let us go together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey.
And Jacob dwelt in the land of Canaan, wherein his father sojourned.
And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him, saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.
And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?
And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.
And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom.
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen.
And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.
And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband. And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son, she said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.
But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink-offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon: and calling the name of that place Bethel.
And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac, he heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.
And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.
Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.
Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.
And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: 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. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who are these? He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said: Bring them to me, that I may bless them.
And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-trees, and pilled them in part; so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness; but the parts that were whole remained green; and by this means the colour was divers.
And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.
And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.
And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened, he sat on his bed.
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob. And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.
Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Jacob.
They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she fed the flock.
And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.
Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?
And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.
Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.
All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.
And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.
And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him,
And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?
Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob's thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.
And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favour before my lord.
And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Canaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town.
And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.
And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Egypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into Egypt, were seventy.
And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.
And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.
And when he had heard the causes of his journey, he answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh.
And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and when he, with his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau, thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.
And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids.
And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Canaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.
In the meantime the famine was heavy upon all the land. And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little food.
But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?
Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.
And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.
And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.
And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.
And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.
So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin: and went down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.
And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.
In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him. And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.
So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them.