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H. +Willard</h1> +<pre> +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: The Farmer Boy; the Story of Jacob</p> +<p>Author: J. H. Willard</p> +<p>Release Date: January 9, 2005 [eBook #14643]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FARMER BOY; THE STORY OF JACOB***</p> +<br><br><center><h3>E-text prepared by Al Haines</h3></center><br><br> + +<hr noshade> +<BR><BR><BR> + +<CENTER> +<a href="images/imgfp.jpg"> +<IMG SRC="images/imgfp.jpg" ALT="Frontispiece" BORDER="2" WIDTH="60%"></a> +<H5> +[Frontispiece] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +ALTEMUS' CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE SERIES +</H3> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H1 ALIGN="center"> +THE FARMER BOY +</H1> + +<BR><BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +THE STORY OF JACOB +</H2> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +BY +</H4> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +J. H. WILLARD +</H2> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +ILLUSTRATED +</H3> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + +<H6 ALIGN="center"> +Philadelphia<br> +Henry Altemus Company +</H6> +<center> +<h4>1905</h4> +</center> +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H3> +Altemus' Illustrated Children of the Bible Series +</H3> + +<P CLASS="noindent" ALIGN="left"> +The Boy who Obeyed: The Story of Isaac<BR> +The Farmer Boy: The Story of Jacob<BR> +The Favorite Son: The Story of Joseph<BR> +The Adopted Son: The Story of Moses<BR> +The Boy General: The Story of Joshua<BR> +The Boy at School: The Story of Samuel<BR> +The Shepherd Boy: The Story of David<BR> +The Boy who would be King: The Story of Absalom<BR> +The Captive Boy: The Story of Daniel<BR> +The Boy Jesus<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR> + + +<BR><BR> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img005a.jpg" ALT="Untitled" BORDER="2" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="240"> +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +THE FARMER BOY +</H2> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE STORY OF JACOB +</H3> + +<P> +Abraham, the father of the great Israelitish, or Hebrew, nation, was +the chief, or sheikh, as he would be called now, of his family or +tribe, and with his flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, camels and other +animals, servants and followers, moved from place to place, adding to +his wealth as time went on and making for himself a respected name +wherever he went. +</P> + +<P> +God chose Abraham to be the founder of this mighty nation, and at his +death promised a continuation of His favor to his son Isaac, who had +married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, who was Abraham's nephew. +Isaac was an only son and inherited his father's great wealth. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img007a.jpg" ALT="Abraham, the founder of a nation" BORDER="2" WIDTH="280" HEIGHT="460"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Abraham, the Founder of a Nation.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Isaac and Rebekah had twin sons whose names were Esau and Jacob, and +perhaps no brothers were ever more unlike in their dispositions. Esau +grew up to be a hunter. Nothing pleased him so much as to take his bow +and arrows and spend days away from home in the pursuit of deer, from +whose flesh he made food which his father liked. +</P> + +<P> +Among other customs of that time which seem strange to us now was that +of rich men and their wives and their sons as well preparing food with +their own hands, although it is done in the East to some extent in +these days. +</P> + +<P> +Abraham was certainly a rich man with a host of servants at command, +yet the Bible tells us that Sarah, his wife, prepared with her own +hands the food for the strangers who visited the patriarch as he sat in +the door of his tent by the Oaks of Mamre. We can understand then that +the sons of Isaac, who were even richer than his father, prepared food +themselves. +</P> + +<P> +Esau was looked upon as the older son and treated accordingly. There +were certain privileges which by custom were given to oldest sons at +their fathers' deaths, and these things constituted what was called a +birthright. In addition to being treated as the older son Esau was +also the favorite son of his father. +</P> + +<P> +But Rebekah loved Jacob more than she did Esau. Jacob was of a much +quieter disposition than his brother, living near his mother and +probably spending much of his time with her. We may think of him as a +man who liked to live in comfort and peace, hospitable to strangers, as +was the custom of the country, yet all the time wishing, as he looked +out over the flocks and herds, that his was to be an older brother's +portion when they were divided. +</P> + +<P> +The word Jacob means "supplanter," or one who takes the place of +another, and Jacob acted up to the meaning of his name at the first +opportunity. It came about in this way. +</P> + +<P> +Jacob was cooking some food one day which smelt and looked very +tempting to Esau when he came in hungry and tired to the point of +exhaustion from one of his hunting trips. He asked his brother to give +him some of this food, and Jacob, seeing a chance to acquire what he +coveted, told him he would do so if he would give him his birthright in +exchange for it. Probably Esau's hunger was more to him at the moment +than any privileges he might have later in life, so he consented and +the bargain was made. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img011a.jpg" ALT="Jacob was cooking some food one day." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Jacob was cooking some food one day.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +After this there was a famine in the land where Isaac and his family +lived, but Isaac did not go to Egypt to escape it as his father had +done on a similar occasion. Instead, he took his family into the land +of the Philistines and lived for a time at a place called Gerar. +</P> + +<P> +Isaac grew so prosperous in Gerar that the Philistines envied him. +They had filled up the wells which his father had dug years before, so +Isaac, besides reopening them, dug others, about which there were many +disputes. Then after a while Isaac took his family to Beersheba, and +there God renewed to him the promises of future greatness which He had +made to Abraham. +</P> + +<P> +Both Isaac and Rebekah disapproved of the marriage Esau made with a +woman of a neighboring tribe, but in spite of this Isaac loved him very +dearly, and when he felt that he should not live much longer he wished +to bestow a blessing or promise upon him. So he called Esau and asked +him to go once more and get some of the meat he liked and cook it for +him, telling him that when he brought it he would bless him. +</P> + +<P> +Esau set out on his errand, but as soon as he had gone, Rebekah, who +had overheard what Isaac had said, called Jacob, whom she loved more +than she did Esau, and told him that now he had a chance to get the +blessing instead of his brother, and showed him how it could be done. +</P> + +<P> +Jacob was very fond of his mother; he wanted the blessing, but was +afraid his father would detect the deception and that it would bring a +curse instead of a blessing. But his mother told him she would take +all the blame and then Jacob consented to do as she told him. +</P> + +<P> +Rebekah first sent Jacob to get some meat, which she cooked in the way +Isaac liked, and then she dressed him in some of Esau's clothes. Then +she put hairy skins on his hands and neck to make him feel like Esau if +Isaac should put his hands on him. Then she gave him the meat she had +prepared and sent him on his dishonest errand. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img013a.jpg" ALT="The hands are the hands of Esau." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="290"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: The hands are the hands of Esau.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +So Jacob went where his blind father was sitting and said, "My father." +And Isaac replied, "Here am I; who art thou, my son?" Then Jacob told +him that he was his son Esau, and that he had brought the food as he +had been asked to do. Isaac asked him how the meat could have been +found and prepared so quickly, and Jacob replied, "Because the Lord thy +God brought it to me." +</P> + +<P> +Still Isaac was not satisfied and had him come nearer that he might +feel of him, but the disguise was good and Isaac said, "The voice is +Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." But before he ate +he made one more appeal. "Art thou," he asked, "my very son Esau?" and +Jacob, forced by the first lie to tell another and then another, +replied, "I am." +</P> + +<P> +Isaac ate the food and then blessed Jacob, whom he supposed to be Esau. +He promised a great and prosperous future for him. People and nations +should serve him, and his brothers should bow down to him. Scarcely +had Jacob left his father, when Esau came back with the food his father +had asked him to bring and claimed the blessing. +</P> + +<P> +When Isaac realized that he had been deceived he told Esau that he +could not recall the promises he had made to the one who had brought +him the food, and then Esau, who had sold his birthright, and now had +been tricked out of the blessing that was rightfully his, cried out +bitterly, "Bless me, even me also, O my father." +</P> + +<P> +Then Isaac told him that it was his brother Jacob who had robbed him, +and Esau replied, "Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath +supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, +now he hath taken away my blessing. Hast thou not reserved a blessing +for me?" And then in the bitterness of his heart he wept. +</P> + +<P> +Moved by Esau's distress, Isaac did bless him, but the promises he made +were different from those he had given Jacob. He told Esau that he +should live by the sword, that he should serve his brother, but that +the time would come when he would break away from his brother's rule. +</P> + +<P> +Esau hated his brother after this and made threats that he would kill +him after their father died. His mother heard of these threats and was +afraid he would carry them out, so she proposed that Jacob should go to +her brother Laban and stay with him until Esau's anger had cooled. +Isaac agreed to this and told him also to choose a wife among Laban's +daughters. +</P> + +<P> +Before Jacob's departure Isaac blessed him, once more telling him that +he and his descendants should have the land which God had promised to +Abraham and his family. So the mother and her favorite son parted. +Their deceit had given Jacob the blessing that should have been Esau's, +but Rebekah was never to see Jacob again. +</P> + +<P> +Jacob started on his journey to his uncle's house, and when night came +lay down to sleep, making a pillow of stones for his head. In his +sleep a wonderful dream or vision came to him. He saw a ladder with +its foot resting on the earth and its top reaching to heaven. Upon +this ladder angels went up and down, while at the top stood God +Himself, who promised Jacob that He would be with him wherever he went, +and that he and his children should have the land in which he was at +that time. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img017a.jpg" ALT="Upon this ladder angels went up and down." BORDER="2" WIDTH="310" HEIGHT="440"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Upon this ladder angels went up and down.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +When Jacob awoke he made a pillar of the stone upon which his head had +rested, poured oil upon it, and called the name of the place Bethel. +Then he made a vow that if God would go with him and provide for him he +would serve Him and give to Him a tenth part of all he possessed. +</P> + +<P> +Although Jacob knew a good deal about God, up to this time he had no +personal knowledge of Him, but during, this, his first night from home, +he had, in a vision, seen God and heard His voice in the most gracious +of promises. His whole life was changed, and from that time he was +God's man. +</P> + +<P> +Then Jacob went on his way again and came to a well near Haran, where +Laban lived. This well was not like the one where Eliezer, the steward +of Abraham, had first seen the maiden who became Jacob's mother. It +was more like a cistern or tank with an opening at the top which was +covered by a great stone which had to be rolled away to get at the +water. +</P> + +<P> +Three flocks of sheep were lying near by and Jacob asked the shepherds +if they knew Laban and why they did not water their flocks. The men +told him that they knew Laban and that they were waiting for his sheep +to arrive and then all the flocks would be watered. +</P> + +<P> +Just then Rachel, one of the daughters of Laban, appeared with her +father's sheep, and the shepherds told Jacob who she was. Then Jacob +went to the well, rolled the stone away, and watered Laban's sheep. +Then he told Rachel who he was and she hastened away to tell her father. +</P> + +<P> +When Laban heard who had come to visit him he ran to meet Jacob and +made him welcome just as he had done years before when his sister +Rebekah had told him of her meeting with her uncle's steward outside +the city of Nahor. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img021a.jpg" ALT="Meeting of Eliezer and the maiden who became Jacob's +mother." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="400"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Meeting of Eliezer and the maiden who became Jacob's mother.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Jacob staid with Laban for a month, helping him with his flocks and +becoming more and more in love with Rachel. Then Laban asked him if he +would like to be his shepherd and if so what wages he would wish. +Jacob told Laban he would serve him seven years for his daughter Rachel +and so the bargain was made. We are told that, "Jacob served seven +years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love +he had to her." +</P> + +<P> +But Laban was as crafty as Jacob had been when he obtained his +brother's birthright and robbed him of his blessing. He tricked Jacob +and made him work seven more years for Rachel. +</P> + +<P> +After the second seven years had passed and Jacob had married Rachel, +he made another bargain with Laban and this time it was greatly to his +own advantage. He lived with Laban for a number of years and then God +appeared to him, saying, "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst +the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee +out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred." +</P> + +<P> +So, without letting Laban know anything about it, Jacob took his +family, his flocks and herds and all his possessions, and started for +his father's home in the land of Canaan. He had been gone three days +before Laban knew that he had left him. After seven days he overtook +Jacob camped on Mount Gilead. +</P> + +<P> +When they met, Laban accused Jacob of carrying away some of his +possessions, and searched his tent for them; but after a while, not +finding them, they talked over all that had occurred since Jacob first +came to Laban's house, and in the end they made a covenant or agreement +of friendship and set up a heap of stones for a witness to it and +called it "Mizpah," which means, "The Lord watch between me and thee, +when we are absent one from another." +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img025a.jpg" ALT="Laban searched Jacob's tent." BORDER="2" WIDTH="330" HEIGHT="290"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Laban searched Jacob's tent.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +So Jacob and his family kept on their way to the land of Canaan. He +had now eleven sons and one daughter and was a rich man, for God had +kept His promise and blessed him abundantly. On the way he heard that +his brother Esau was coming to meet him with a band of four hundred +men. Jacob remembered how he had taken advantage of his brother and +was afraid the time for Esau's promised revenge had come. +</P> + +<P> +But Jacob prayed to God to protect him, and after sending his family by +night across a little mountain river, he remained alone in the darkness +on the other side. The Bible tells us that there he met God in the +shape of a man and wrestled with Him until morning, saying, "I will not +let thee go, except thou bless me." And God did bless him and gave him +a new name--that of "Israel," which means "a prince of God." +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img027a.jpg" ALT="Jacob wrestled with him until morning." BORDER="2" WIDTH="315" HEIGHT="430"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Jacob wrestled with him until morning.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +In the morning the brothers met, but Esau's anger was all gone and in +its place was such love for Jacob that he embraced him and kissed him, +while both wept for joy. Jacob had prepared a present of sheep and +cattle and camels and other animals for his brother, which at first +Esau did not wish to take, but he accepted it at last and then the +brothers separated, Esau going to the hilly country of Seir, while +Jacob continued his journey. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img029a.jpg" ALT="Esau's anger was all gone." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="210"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Esau's anger was all gone.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Jacob halted for a while at a place called Succoth, where he built a +house for himself and stables for his cattle. Then he went to Shechem +and bought some land near the city for "an hundred pieces of silver." +In the time of his grandfather Abraham money was weighed, not counted, +but now it was in the shape of rude coins with the figures of lambs +stamped upon them. +</P> + +<P> +After a while God told Jacob to go to Bethel, where, on his first night +from home, he had vowed to give Him a tenth part of all his +possessions, and to build an altar there. His way to Bethel lay +through a hostile country, but God protected him as He had promised; +and at last Jacob reached the pillar which he had set up, and there he +built the altar and worshipped God. +</P> + +<P> +Jacob's mother had died during his long absence from home and now her +old nurse, Deborah, died, so in memory of the great love mother and son +had for each other he buried Rebekah's faithful servant under an +oak-tree and called it "the oak of tears." +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img030a.jpg" ALT="The tomb of Rachel near Bethlehem." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="235"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: The tomb of Rachel near Bethlehem.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +From Bethel Jacob now set out for Hebron, but on the way, just before +they came to Bethlehem--the little village where Jesus was born many +years afterwards--his beloved Rachel died, leaving him his twelfth and +last son, whom he called Benjamin. Rachel was buried where she died +and a pillar was placed above her grave. Then Jacob went on to see his +father, who was then living at Abraham's favorite dwelling-place at the +"Oaks of Mamre," and there Isaac died, "being old and full of days: and +his sons Esau and Jacob buried him." +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img031a.jpg" ALT="Isaac died, being old and full of days." BORDER="2" WIDTH="325" HEIGHT="300"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Isaac died, being old and full of days.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +After their father's death Esau and Jacob parted with the best of +feeling because they were so rich in flocks and herds and servants that +the land could not sustain two such large tribes. Jacob continued to +live quietly at Hebron as the head of his family, in touch with +everything that went on, but leaving the actual work to be done by +others. He had a great number of servants and his ten older sons were +in charge of his vast flocks and herds. +</P> + +<P> +Joseph was his especial favorite among his sons, and Jacob showed his +preference in ways that were perhaps not wise. For one thing, he gave +him a very handsome coat which distinguished him from his brothers. +Then he did not send him to tend the flocks and herd the cattle, but +kept him at home with himself and his little brother Benjamin. +</P> + +<P> +Jacob's sons were not slow to notice their father's fondness for Joseph +and it made them angry. They were all older than he and had served +their father faithfully for many years, while Joseph was only seventeen +years old. Another thing made them angry. Joseph used to have dreams +and tell them to his brothers in what they thought was a boastful way. +Their jealousy and anger grew to hatred and they talked over plans for +getting rid of him. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img033a.jpg" ALT="Joseph used to have dreams and tell them to his +brothers." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="440"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Joseph used to have dreams and tell them to his brothers.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +At this time Jacob's flocks of sheep were at quite a distance from +Hebron, cared for by the ten older sons. Wishing to know how they +prospered, Jacob sent Joseph to inquire if all was well with them. So +Joseph set out on his errand and found his brothers in the +pasture-lands of Dothan. +</P> + +<P> +When his brothers saw him coming they decided to get rid of him in some +way. Their hearts were full of hatred and they deliberately planned to +kill their brother. One thing after another was suggested until at +last they decided to leave him in a deep, dry water-cistern to starve +to death. +</P> + +<P> +Reuben, the eldest son, intended to get Joseph out of the cistern later +and send him home to his father, but he was unable to do this, for in +his absence his brothers sold Joseph to some merchants who came along +just then. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img036a.jpg" ALT="His brothers sold Joseph to some merchants." BORDER="2" WIDTH="325" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: His brothers sold Joseph to some merchants.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +These merchants took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, one of +the officers of the King's household. Potiphar was very kind to +Joseph, and as he grew up made him his steward or overseer. Joseph had +very winning manners and in time rose to be the governor or ruler over +all the land of Egypt and in high favor with King Pharaoh. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img037a.jpg" ALT="Ruler over all the land of Egypt." BORDER="2" WIDTH="325" HEIGHT="240"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Ruler over all the land of Egypt.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Meanwhile Joseph's brothers had told their father that Joseph had been +killed by a wild beast, and in proof they showed Jacob his son's +handsome coat, which they had taken from him and dipped in blood for +this purpose. Jacob mourned long and bitterly for Joseph, and then he +and his sons lived on much as they had been doing until there was a +famine in the land and no food was to be had. +</P> + +<P> +Then Jacob sent his ten older sons to Egypt to buy corn, for it was +plentiful there. He would not let Benjamin go, however, fearing that +some harm might come to him. When Reuben and his brothers reached +Egypt they were taken to Joseph, the governor, who recognized them at +once, but pretended to think they were spies. They protested in vain +that they had been sent by their father to buy food and that this was +their only errand. +</P> + +<P> +Joseph asked them if they had any other brothers, and they told him +there was one more, Benjamin, the youngest. Then Joseph told them to +go home and come back again bringing Benjamin with them, and that he +would keep Simeon, one of their number, until they did this. +</P> + +<P> +So back they went with their sacks full of corn which Joseph had +allowed them to buy, and told their father what the governor had said +and done. At first Jacob refused to let them take Benjamin away from +him, but when the corn they had brought home was all gone he consented. +</P> + +<P> +Once more the brothers stood before the governor of Egypt and this time +Benjamin was with them. After questioning them once more, letting them +start on their home-ward journey, and then bringing them back again, +Joseph told them who he was and how he had been prospered. He gave +them food and money and clothes and sent them back to Hebron. He also +told them to bring back their father Jacob and gave them wagons in +which to bring his goods. +</P> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img039a.jpg" ALT="Joseph told them who he was." BORDER="2" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="440"> + +<H5> +[Illustration: Joseph told them who he was.] +</H5> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Pharaoh, the King, also sent an invitation to Jacob, and in time he and +his sons and their families went to Egypt and were given the fertile +land of Goshen for their home. They were put in charge of all the +King's flocks and herds and became very prosperous. +</P> + +<P> +But before agreeing to this change of home Jacob asked God if he should +go to Egypt. God told him to go, and on the way his long-lost son +Joseph met him and took him to Pharaoh, who received him very kindly. +</P> + +<P> +Jacob and his sons lived peaceably in Egypt for seventeen years, and +then Jacob died at the age of a hundred and forty-seven years. But +before he died he blessed Joseph's two sons and made him promise to +bury him in the family sepulchre, the cave of Machpelah. +</P> + +<P> +As the end approached, Jacob blessed all his twelve sons and foretold +what their lives would be, bestowing a peculiar blessing upon his third +son, Judah, from whose descendants should be born the Saviour of his +people. +</P> + +<P> +Jacob's body was embalmed and carried to the land of Canaan, attended +by his twelve sons, and a great company of Pharaoh's household, and +buried in the cave of Machpelah as he had directed. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + +<hr noshade> + +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FARMER BOY; THE STORY OF JACOB***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 14643-h.txt or 14643-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/6/4/14643">https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/4/14643</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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