Bible: Hebrew Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:

    Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
    —Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 8:3.

    Jesus recalls these words in Matthew 4:4.

    I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)