In the Book of Genesis , Zilpah Drooping , Standard Hebrew Zilpa , Tiberian Hebrew Zilp h is Leah s handmaid who becomes a wife of Jacob and bears him two sons Gad son of Jacob Gad and Asher . ref bibleverse Genesis 30 9 HE ref Zilpah is given to Leah as a handmaid by Leah s father, Laban Bible Laban , upon Leah s marriage to Jacob see Genesis 29 24, 46 18 . According to some commentators, Zilpah and Bilhah , the handmaids of Leah and Rachel , respectively, were actually younger daughters of Laban Pirke De Rabbi Eliezer , xxxvi. . According to Rashi , an 11th century commentator, Zilpah was younger than Bilhah , and Laban s decision to give her to Leah was part of the deception he used to trick Jacob into marrying Leah, who was older than Rachel. The morning after the wedding, Laban explained to Jacob, This is not done in our place, to give the younger before the older bibleverse Genesis 29 26 HE . But at night, to mask the deception, Laban gave the veiled bride the younger of the handmaids, so Jacob would think that he was really marrying Rachel, the younger of the sisters. Zilpah also figures in the competition between Jacob s wives to bear him sons. Leah stops conceiving after the birth of her fourth son, at which point ref bibleverse Genesis 30 3 HE ref Rachel, who had not yet borne children, offers her handmaid, Bilhah, in marriage to Jacob so that she can have children through her. When Bilhah conceives two sons, Leah takes up the same idea and presents Zilpah as a wife to Jacob. Leah names the two sons of Zilpah and is directly involved in their upbringing. In Jewish tradition, Zilpah is believed to be buried in the Tomb of the Matriarchs in Tiberias . Popular culture In the novel The Red Tent by Anita Diamant , Zilpah and Bilhah are represented as half sisters of Leah and Rachel by different mothers. References reflist Sons of Jacob Category Torah people Category Jacob Category Burials in Tiberias Category Concubines Category Women in the Bible ar ... more details
Zilpah Polly Grant Banister May 30, 1794 December 3, 1874 was an United States American educator known primarily for founding Ipswich Female Seminary in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1828. Zilpah Grant began teaching at the age of fifteen. Eventually she saved up enough money to enter Byfield Academy and study under the charismatic clergyman Joseph Emerson, a leading proponent of women s education. At Byfield, she befriended Mary Lyon, who later taught with Grant for several years. From 1824 to 1827 or 1828 , Grant served as principal of Adams Female Academy at Derry, New Hampshire . She then founded Ipswich Female Academy. Grant s curricula at Adams and Ipswich reflected Emerson s influence they blended rigorous academic studies, moral oversight, and teacher training. Grant expected students to study for the joy of learning, rather than working for grades or prizes. Mary Lyon was Grant s assistant and, later, principal at Ipswich until she left to found Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1834. http www.mtholyoke.edu marylyon noframes founding.html On September 7, 1841, Grant married William B. Banister and moved with him to Newburyport, Massachusetts . She continued to be active to promote women s education, and published a pamphlet entitled Hints on Education in 1856. References Capen, Eliza Paul, and Leonard W. Labaree. Zilpah Grant and the Art of Teaching 1829. New England Quarterly 20 1947 347 364. External links http gravematter.smugmug.com gallery 1083081 6 50332838 Large Burial place of Zilpah P. Grant Banister in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Massachusetts. http clio.fivecolleges.edu mhc banister Zilpah P. Grant Bannister Papers Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Banister, Zilpah P, Grant ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1794 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1874 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Banister, Zilpah P, Grant Category 1794 births Category 1874 deaths Category American educators Category People ... more details
Image with unknown copyright status removed Image matriarchs.jpg right 300px thumb The Tomb of The Matriarchs Not to be confused with the Cave of the Patriarchs Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of Hebron . The Tomb of The Matriarchs , Hebrew language Hebrew , Kever ha Imahot , in Tiberias , Israel , is the traditional burial place of several Biblical women Zilpah , handmaid of Leah . Bilhah , handmaid of Rachel . Jochebed , mother of Moses . Zipporah , wife of Moses. Elisheva , wife of Aaron . Avigail , one of King David s wives. The marble structure beside a modern apartment building block is surrounded by a stone wall. http www.tiberias hotels.co.il details site.php?ts id 130 See also List of burial places of biblical figures commons category Tomb of the Matriarchs Holy sites in Judaism Category Tiberias Category Tombs of biblical people M Category Jewish pilgrimage sites Hebrew Bible stub ru ... more details
Infobox University name Ipswich Female Seminary image motto established 1828 type Female Seminary president Zilpah P. Grant Banister city Ipswich, Massachusetts state country United States USA campus undergrad postgrad faculty mascot website Ipswich Female Seminary in Ipswich, Massachusetts , established in 1828, was a female seminary , an early school for the secondary and tertiary level education of young women. The school was founded in 1828 by Zilpah P. Grant Banister Zilpah Grant , with assistance from Mary Lyon . ref name papers Grant had previously been a teacher and Lyon a student at an academy for female students in Byfield, Massachusetts . ref name webreprt The school s focus was on preparing girls for careers as teachers and missionaries. It offered a rigorous curriculum , ref name webreprt including study of English, arithmetic, geography, chemistry, human physiology, history, the natural sciences, religion, vocal music, and calisthenics, and placed an emphasis on standards of personal conduct and discipline . ref name papers ref name webreprt Teachers encouraged students in questioning and analysis, in addition to comprehension. ref name webreprt cite url http www.ed.gov offices OERI PLLI webreprt.html title Women s Colleges in the United States History, Issues, and Challenges author Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, Elizabeth DeBra publisher United States Department of Education accessdate February 7, 2012 ref As part of their preparation, students did practice teaching with guidance from a teacher. ref name papers cite url http asteria.fivecolleges.edu findaids mountholyoke mshm197 main.html title Finding Aid Ipswich Female Seminary Collection, 1828 present ref Enrollment averaged 116 students. ref name papers Mary Lyon left as the principal in 1834 to begin a three year effort that culminated in 1837 with the founding of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts . ref cite url http www.mtholyoke.edu marylyon founding.html title The Founding of ... more details
File Gade2.JPG right thumb Portuguese sketch. The English name is Gad . Gad Hebrew Name 1 luck was, according to the Book of Genesis , the first son of Jacob and Zilpah , the seventh of Jacob overall, and the founder of the Israelites Israelite Tribe of Tribe of Gad Gad however some Biblical criticism Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponym ous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. ref Peake s commentary on the Bible ref The text of the Torah argues that the name of Gad means luck fortunate , in Hebrew language Hebrew , deriving from a root word root meaning cut divide , in the sense of divided out classical rabbinical literature argues that the name was a prophetic reference to the manna some Biblical criticism Biblical scholars suspect that refers to a deity originally worshipped by the tribe, namely Gad deity Gad , ref name Jewish Encyclopedia Jewish Encyclopedia ref the semitic deity of fortune, who, according to the Book of Isaiah , was still worshipped by certain Hebrews during the 6th century BC. ref Isaiah 65 11 ref The Biblical account shows Zilpah s status as a handmaid change to an actual wife of Jacob BibleWiki Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 9 Genesis 30 9,11 . Her handmaid status is regarded by some biblical criticism biblical scholars as indicating that the authors saw the tribe of Gad as being not of entirely Israelite origin ref name Jewish Encyclopedia many scholars believe that Gad was a late addition to the Israelite confederation, ref name Jewish Encyclopedia as implied by the Moabite Stone , which seemingly differentiates between the Israelites and the tribe of Gad. ref name Jewish Encyclopedia Gad by this theory is assumed to have originally been a northwards migrating nomad ic tribe, at a time when the other tribes were quite settled in Canaan. ref name Jewish Encyclopedia According to classical rabbinical literature , Gad was born on the tenth of Heshwan , and l ... more details
being the sons of Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah Gen. xxx. 10 et seq., xxxv. 26 . The Biblical account shows Zilpah s status as a handmaid change to an actual wife of Jacob BibleWiki Genesis Chapter ... more details
dablink For the film The Red Tent which refers to a North Pole rescue expedition, see the article The Red Tent film . Refimprove date July 2009 Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels name The Red Tent title orig translator image File Theredtentcover.jpg 180px image caption Cover of the first edition hardcover author Anita Diamant illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series genre Historical novel publisher A Wyatt Book for St. Martin s Press release date October, 1997 english release date media type Print hardcover, paperback pages 321 p. hardcover edition isbn 0 312 35376 6 congress PS3554.I227 R43 2005 oclc 62322613 preceded by followed by The Red Tent is a novel by Anita Diamant , published in 1997 by Wyatt Books for St. Martin s Press . It is a first person narrative that tells the story of Dinah , daughter of Jacob and sister of Joseph Hebrew Bible Joseph . She is a minor character in the Bible , but the author has broadened her story. ref cite web url http bluerectangle.com book reviews view one review 2125 title The Red Tent author date work publisher accessdate 2010 06 23 ref The book s title refers to the tent in which women of Jacob s tribe must, according to the ancient law, take refuge while menstruating or giving birth, and in which they find mutual support and encouragement from their mothers, sisters and aunts. Plot summary Dinah opens the story by recounting for readers the union of her mother Leah and father Jacob, as well as the expansion of the family to include Leah s sister Rachel, and Zilpah and Bilhah . Leah is depicted as capable but testy, Rachel something of a belle but kind and creative, Zilpah as mature and serious and Bilhah as the gentle and quiet one of the quartet. The book also downplays the rivalry between Leah and Rachel that is prominent in the Biblical account see especially Genesis 30 8 15 . Dinah remembers sitting in the red tent with her mother and aunts, gossiping about local ... more details
Infobox Television show name A place in the sun image caption genre creator director developer presenter various starring voices narrated theme music composer opentheme endtheme composer country united kingdom language English num seasons num episodes list episodes executive producer producer asst producer editor location camera runtime 30 60 minutes network channel 4 picture format audio format first run first aired 11 september 2000 present preceded by followed by related website http www.channel4.com programmes a place in the sun channel 4 italic title A Place in the Sun is a United Kingdom British Channel 4 lifestyle programme about buying property abroad. It most often focuses on places in southern Europe , but in recent years has also featured a number of places in other areas of the world. Generally, each episode of the programme shows a British couple wishing to buy a property in a sunny foreign country are shown three or four places found by the show s researchers. The presenter currently Amanda Lamb gives the couple useful local information relating to buying, running and maintaining a property in this particular location. After viewing each property the couple are asked for their opinions. At the end of the show they are asked if they have a favourite property and we re finally told if they went on to buy the property or another in the region.It was a response to the growth in United Kingdom Britons buying property abroad. It the last few years it has shown destinations as diverse as Bulgaria , Romania , Slovenia , Canada , Australia , South Africa , the Caribbean and even Cape Verde . presenters Laura Hamilton 2012 present Jasmine Harman 2006 present Jonnie Irwin 2006 present Amanda Lamb 2001 2006 Simone Bienne 2006 Victoria Hollingsworth 2004 Bella Crane 2003 Fay Davies 2000 Zilpah Hartley 2000 Spin offs Spin offs have included a magazine, which is now the most popular magazine advising on buying overseas property, and two live exhibitions per year in L ... more details
Stephen Longfellow June 23, 1776 August 2, 1849 was a United States House of Representatives U.S. Representative from Maine . Biography Born in Gorham, Maine then a district of Massachusetts to Stephen Longfellow and Patience Young Longfellow , Longfellow graduated from Harvard University in 1798. ref http 74.125.93.132 search?q cache 7GFm9ETfSpkJ familytreemaker.genealogy.com users l e d Patricia B Ledoux GENE6 0010.html 22Mercy Main 22 22Samuel Bragdon 22&cd 1&hl en&ct clnk&gl us ref He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Portland, Maine . He married Zilpah Wadsworth and, with her, had several children, including the future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . He served as member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1814 and 1815. He belonged to the Federalist Party United States Federalist Party and was a delegate to the Hartford Convention in 1814 and 1815. He also served as a Federalist presidential elector in 1816. Longfellow was elected as an Adams Clay Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress March 4, 1823 March 3, 1825 . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1824 and resumed his law practice for a time. He served as member of the state house of representatives in 1826. He served as overseer of Bowdoin College , Brunswick, Maine from 1811 to 1817 and was a trustee of the college from 1817 to 1836. He supported the Portland Athenaeum . ref Eastern Argus, 05 16 1826 Eastern Argus, 01 25 1831 ref He also served as president of the Maine Historical Society in 1834. Stephen Longfellow died in Portland, Maine on August 2, 1849 and was buried in the Western Cemetery Portland, Maine Western Cemetery . ref http politicalgraveyard.com geo ME CU.html RBD0SE7CD Political Graveyard, Western Cemetery ref References reflist CongBio L000430 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Longfellow, Stephen ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American politician DATE OF BIRTH 1775 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1849 PLACE ... more details
Infobox Person name Samuel Longfellow image Samuel Longfellow.jpg image size caption birth date June 18, 1819 birth place Portland, Maine Portland , Maine , USA death date October 3, 1892 death place Cape Elizabeth, Maine Cape Elizabeth , Maine, USA death cause resting place Western Cemetery Portland, Maine Western Cemetery , Portland, Maine, USA nationality American education Harvard College , Harvard Divinity School occupation Clergyman and hymn writer religion Unitarianism Unitarian spouse children parents relatives Brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Samuel Longfellow 1819 1892 was an American clergyman and hymn writer. Biography Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine to Stephen Longfellow Stephen and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow he is the younger brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . He attended Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, where his classmates included Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Johnson, with whom he would later collaborate in his hymn writing. He is considered part of the second generation of transcendentalists ref Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism A History . New York Hill and Wang, 2007 8. ISBN 0 8090 3477 8 ref after becoming a Unitarianism Unitarian pastor, he adapted the Transcendence philosophy Transcendental philosophy he had encountered in divinity school into his hymns and sermons. He served as a pastor in Fall River, Massachusetts 1848 , Second Unitarian Church Brooklyn, New York 1853 , and Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Germantown, Pennsylvania 1860 . He died in 1892 and is buried in the Western Cemetery Portland, Maine Western Cemetery in Portland s West End Portland, Maine West End . Selected bibliography A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion, 1846, jointly edited with Samuel Johnson. This collection was enlarged and revised in 1860. Thalatta a Book for the Seaside, with Thomas W. Higginson, 1853 Vespers, 1859 The Poem of Niagata, 1861 Hymns of the Spirit, 1864 jointly edited with Samu ... more details
other persons Infobox University President name Mary Lyon image MaryLyon Portrait.jpg caption Portrait of Mary Lyon order 1st university President of Mount Holyoke College Founder and Principal term start 1837 term end 1849 birth date February 28, 1797 birth place death date death date and age 1849 3 5 1797 2 28 death place predecessor none successor Mary C. Whitman website footnotes Mary Mason Lyon 28 February 1797 5 March 1849 , surname pronounced IPA en la . n , was a pioneer in women s education. She established the Wheaton College Massachusetts Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts Norton , Massachusetts , now Wheaton College Massachusetts Wheaton College . Within two years, she raised 15,000 to build the Mount Holyoke School. She also established Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke Female Seminary now Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley , Massachusetts in 1837 and served as its first president or principal for 12 years. Lyon s vision for Mount Holyoke fused intellectual challenge and moral purpose. She valued socioeconomic diversity and endeavored to make the seminary affordable for students of modest means. Early Life The daughter of a farming family in Buckland, Massachusetts , Lyon had a hardscrabble childhood. Her father died when she was five, and the entire family pitched in to help run the farm. Lyon was thirteen when her mother remarried and moved away she stayed behind in Buckland in order to keep the house for her brother Aaron, who took over the farm. She attended various district schools intermittently and, in 1814, began teaching in them as well. Lyon s modest beginnings fostered her life long commitment to extending educational opportunities to girls from middling and poor backgrounds. Lyon was eventually able to attend two secondary schools, Sanderson Academy in Ashfield and Byfield Seminary in eastern Massachusetts. At Byfield, she was befriended by the headmaster, Rev. Joseph Emerson, and his assistant, Zilpah P. Grant Banister Z ... more details
Pilegesh he is a Hebrew language Hebrew term for a Concubinage concubine with similar social and Law legal standing to a recognized wife, often for the purpose of producing offspring . Etymology The term Pilegesh comes from a non Hebrew, non Semitic loanword deriving from the Greek language Greek word pallakis, Greek , ref Michael Lieb, Milton and the culture of violence , p. 274, Cornell University Press, 1994 ref ref Marc Lee Raphael, Agendas for the study of Midrash in the twenty first century , p. 136, Dept. of Religion, College of William and Mary, 1999 ref ref Nicholas Clapp, Sheba Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen , p. 297, Houghton Mifflin, 2002 ref meaning a mistress lover mistress staying in house there is a common but unfounded view that it derives from the Aramaic language Aramaic phrase palga isha , meaning half wife . Citation needed date April 2011 Legal characteristics A pilegesh was recognized among the ancient Hebrews and enjoyed the same rights in the house as the legitimate wife. Since having children in Judaism was considered a great blessing, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands so they could have children with them when those women themselves where childless, normally because of infertility issues as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar Leah and Zilpah and Rachel and Bilhah . The concubine commanded the same respect and Sanctity of life inviolability as the wife, and it was regarded as the deepest dishonor for the man to whom she belonged if hands were laid upon her. According to the Babylonian Talmud Sanh. 21a , the difference between a pilegesh and a full wife was that the latter received a ketubah and her marriage was preceded by a formal betrothal kiddushin , which was not the case with the former. According to R. Judah, however, the concubine also received a ketubah, but without the aliment pertaining to it. Any offspring created as a result of a union between a pilegesh and a man were on e ... more details
figure Dan and Naphtali that Bilhah bears. Leah responds by offering her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob, and names and raises the two sons Gad son of Jacob Gad and Asher that Zilpah bears. According to some commentaries, Bilhah and Zilpah are actually half sisters of Leah and Rachel. ref name loj Ginzberg ... more details
by offering her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob, and names and raises the two sons Gad son of Jacob Gad and Asher that Zilpah bears. According to some commentaries, Bilhah and Zilpah, are actually half sisters ... more details
Image Issacar.JPG right thumb Portuguese sketch. The English name used is either Issachar or Yissachar . The open book in the center of the image depicts the tribe s devotion to Torah study . Issachar Yissachar Hebrew Name Yissakhar Yi r Reward recompense was, according to the Book of Genesis , a son of Jacob and Leah the fifth son of Leah, and ninth son of Jacob , and the founder of the Israelites Israelite Tribe of Tribe of Issachar Issachar however some Biblical criticism Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponym ous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. ref Peake s commentary on the Bible ref The text of the Torah gives two different etymology etymologies for the name of Issachar , which some textual criticism textual scholars attribute to different sources one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist ref Richard Elliott Friedman , who wrote the bible ref the first being that it derives from ish sakar , meaning man of hire , in reference to Leah s hire of Jacob s sexual intercourse sexual favours for the price of some mandrake plant mandrake s ref Genesis 30 16 ref the second being that it derives from yesh sakar , meaning there is a reward , in reference to Leah s opinion that the birth of Issachar was a divine reward for giving her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob as a concubine. ref Genesis 30 18 ref Scholars suspect the former explanation to be the more likely name for a tribe, though some scholars have proposed a third etymology that it derives from ish Sokar , meaning man of Sokar , in reference to the tribe originally worshipping Seker Sokar , an Egyptian deity. ref name Jewish Encyclopedia Jewish Encyclopedia ref In the Biblical account, Leah s status as the first wife of Jacob, is regarded by biblical criticism biblical scholars as indicating that the authors saw the tribe of Issachar as being one of the original Israelite groups ref name Jewish Encyclopedia howeve ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Wadsworth Longfellow House nrhp type nhl image Wadsworth Longfellow House Front.JPG caption The entrance to the Wadsworth Longfellow House location 489 Congress St br Portland, Maine nearest city latitude 43.65693 longitude 70.26020 coord format dms coord display inline,title coord parameters region US ME type landmark scale 3000 locmapin Maine area built architect Peleg Wadsworth architecture designated nrhp type December 29, 1962 ref name nhlsum cite web url http tps.cr.nps.gov nhl detail.cfm?ResourceId 37&ResourceType Building title Wadsworth Longfellow House accessdate 2008 06 25 work National Historic Landmark summary listing publisher National Park Service ref added October 15, 1966 visitation num visitation year refnum 66000090 ref name nris NRISref 2008a ref mpsub governing body The Wadsworth Longfellow House is an historic house and museum in Portland, Maine , United States . It is located at 489 Congress Street Portland, Maine Congress Street and is operated by the Maine Historical Society . It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and administratively added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The house is open daily to public from May through October half days on Sundays . An admission fee is charged. History The house has both historical and literary importance, as it is both the oldest standing structure on the Portland peninsula and the childhood home of famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 1882 . Revolutionary War General Peleg Wadsworth built the house in 1785 1786, the first wholly brick dwelling in Portland. ref Haas, Irvin. Historic Homes of American Authors . Washington, DC The Preservation Press, 1991. ISBN 0891331808. p. 69. ref Wadsworth raised ten children in the two story structure with a pitched roof before retiring to the family farm in Hiram, Maine , in 1807. His daughter Zilpah and her husband Stephen Longfellow IV were married in the house. Their son, Henry ... more details
MedalTableTopPic Ed Hamm.jpg 200px Ed Hamm MedalSport Men s Athletics track and field athletics MedalCountry the USA MedalOlympic MedalGold 1928 Summer Olympics 1928 Amsterdam Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men s long jump Long jump MedalBottom Edward Ed or Eddie Barton Hamm born 13 April 1906 in Lonoke, Arkansas &ndash died June 25, 1982 was an United States American athlete, who won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam , Netherlands . There he set a world record in the long jump, becoming the first Arkansan to win a gold medal. The Atlanta Journal called him the South s first world champion in any sport. Hamm was born in 1906, to Charles Edward Hamm, a plumber and electrician, and Zilpah Dare Harris Hamm. He was the oldest of five brothers and one sister. Raised in Lonoke, he excelled in sports, especially track and field . In high school , he won the state long jump for three years straight, 1923 to 1925, setting a state record of 23 2 his sophomore year. He won the state 220 yard dash all three years and the state 100 yard dash twice, despite attacks of malaria , which first affected him in his junior year and undoubtedly prevented him from bettering his records. Hamm and teammate Hubert Davis athlete Hubert Davis were the only two Lonoke competitors to enter a high school invitational meet at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas Fayetteville in 1925. He won first in the 100 yard dash, the 200 yard dash, the long jump, and the high jump, as well as finishing third place in the 440. Though the two could not enter the relays, together they won the meet by two points over Little Rock High School . In his junior year 1924 Hamm set a world high school record of 24 2 7.38 m , which qualified him for the Olympic trials in Boston, Massachusetts . To pay for his trip, he borrowed 100 from Little Rock Pulaski County coach Earl Quigley. He failed to qualify for the Olympics, but the next year he went to Little ... more details
File Figures Jacob Laban Make Covenant.jpg thumb 210px Laban and Jacob make a covenant together, as narrated in Genesis 31 44 54. Laban Hebrew Name Lavan L n White is the son of Bethuel , brother of Rebekah as described in the Book of Genesis . As such he is brother in law to Isaac and both father in law and uncle to Jacob . Laban and his family were described as dwelling in Paddan aram , in Mesopotamia . Though the biblical text itself does not attest to this, Rabbinic sources also identify him as the father of Bilhah and Zilpah , the two concubines with whom Jacob also has children Midrash Raba, Genesis 74 13 and elsewhere . Laban first appears in Genesis 24 29 60 as the grown spokesman for his father Bethuel s house he was impressed by the gold jewelry given to his sister on behalf of Isaac, and played a key part in arranging their marriage. Twenty years later, Laban s nephew Jacob was born to Isaac and Rebekah. When grown, Jacob comes to work for Laban. The Biblical narrative provides a framework for dating these events. Jacob begat Joseph 14 years after his flight to Laban Joseph entered Pharaoh s service at age 30 and from that point, after 7 years of plenty and 2 years of famine, Jacob met Pharaoh and stated his age as 130. Subtracting yields an age of 77 Jacob at his flight to Laban . Laban was more than 30 years older than Jacob, and employed him for 20 years. Laban promised his younger daughter Rachel to Jacob in return for seven years service, only to trick him into marrying his elder daughter Leah instead. Jacob then served another seven years in exchange for the right to marry his choice, Rachel, as well Gen. 29 . Laban s flocks and fortunes increased under Jacob s skilled care, but there was much further trickery between them. Six years after his promised service has ended, Jacob, having prospered largely by proving more cunning than his father in law, finally left. Laban pursued him, but they eventually parted on good terms Gen. 31 . Laban can ... more details
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