Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.
Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.
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Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.

Skeitz

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Lettering: Esau sells his birthright. Then Jacob gave Esau bread & pottage of lentiles: and he did eat and drink and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. Gen. XXV. v. 34. Skeitz del. E. Kirkall fecit.

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