Feast Day: Sunday of the Holy Forefathers of Christ (Sunday between 11th-17th of December)
Patriarch Jacob – is the son of Patriarch Isaac and Righteous Rebecca. He is the husband of Righteous Leah and then Righteous Rachel.
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Genesis 28:12-16
“Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the Earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven; and behold, the Angels of God were ascending and descending on it!… Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
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“So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man” (Genesis 32:24, 25)
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