Famous quotes containing the words sacrifice and/or isaac:
“Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)
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