<P> Isaac (father) Rebecca (mother) </P> <P> Jacob (/ ˈdʒeɪkəb /; Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב ‬, Modern Ya'aqōv (help info), Tiberian Yā'āqōḇ), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites . According to the Book of Genesis, Jacob was the third Hebrew progenitor with whom God made a covenant . He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and Bethuel, the nephew of Ishmael, and the younger twin brother of Esau . Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah . </P> <P> Jacob's twelve sons, named in Genesis, were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin . His only daughter mentioned in Genesis is Dinah . The twelve sons became the progenitors of the "Tribes of Israel". </P> <P> As a result of a severe drought in Canaan, Jacob and his sons moved to Egypt at the time when his son Joseph was viceroy . After 17 years in Egypt, Jacob died, and the length of Jacob's life was 147 years . Joseph carried Jacob's remains to the land of Canaan, and gave him a stately burial in the same Cave of Machpelah as were buried Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, and Jacob's first wife, Leah . </P>

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