Isaac and Jacob and Their Term Paper

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At Haran, the same locale where Isaac met Rebekah,
Jacob was met by his cousin Rachel ("And Jacob went near and rolled the
stone from the well's mouth," Genesis 29:10) and was taken back to his
uncle Laban with whom Isaac agreed to work for seven years in order to take
Rachel as his wife. As mentioned above concerning how Isaac met Rebekah,
the location of Jacob's first meeting with Rachel is indicative of the
religious significance of water, whether used for drinking, watering cattle
and sheep or for ritual cleansing according to ancient Jewish practices.

Certainly, both of these encounters are symbolic of Isaac and Jacob's
spiritual longings and needs to be blessed by Jehovah; thus, water figures
prominently in these stories and many others in the Old….....

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