1- Jacob's twin brother's name was Esau. Genesis 25:25
2- When Esau returned from the fields, famished, he asked Jacob for food. Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright and Esau accepted. Genesis 25:29-34
3- Isaak was a blind, old man. When he felt he was dying he asked Esau to prepare him a savory food so that he could eat and give him his blessing. His wife, Rebecca, overheard him and told Jacob to pretend to be his brother. He dressed with Esau's clothes and puts lamb skin on his arms to imitate his brother's body hair. Then Jacon took Isaak a dish made by his mother and tricked him into giving him his blessing. Genesis 27:1-29
4- I believe Jacob's decision is immoral because he plots with his mother to deceit his father into giving him a blessing that was meant to be for his brother.
5- At Bethel, Jacob dreamed about a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. At the top of the stair was the Lord, who told Jacob that he would give him and his offspring the land in which he is lying. Genesis 28:10-15
6- Jacob's wives name's were Leah and Rachel. Of the two, he loved Rachel more. Genesis 29:16
7- In order to marry Rachel, Jacob made a deal with her father, Laban, by which Jacob had to work for him for seven years. My opinion on this deal is that Rachel should have been the one deciding whether she wanted to marry Jacob or not. Genesis 29:18
8- Laban tricked Jacob by marrying him to his oldest daughter Leah. Since she was vailed, Jacob did not realized the two sisters had been exchanged. In order to finally marry Rachel, Jacob had to agree to work for an extra seven years. Genesis 29:21-30
9- Jacob striked a deal with Laban by which Laban would take all the colored or spotted sheep and Jacob would keep all the pure white ones. However, Jacob would get to keep all colored or spotted sheeps that were born from his own white sheeps. Laban believed this to be impossible, so he agreed eagerly.
However, Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods. He set the rods which he had peeled in fron of the flock's water source; the sheep mated when they came to drink, causing the birthed ones to be striped, speckled, and spotted. Genesis 30:25-43
