Famous quotes containing the words brother and/or lazarus:
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)
“Still on Israel’s head forlorn,
Every nation heaps its scorn.”
—Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)