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Leah (" Lea "; " La ' ya ;" from ), as described in the Hebrew ___MASK20___ , is the first of the two concurrent wives of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob and mother of six sons whose descendants became some of the Twelve Tribes of Israel , along with one daughter , Dinah . Leah was the daughter of Laban and the older sister of Rachel , whom Jacob also married . Canaan ( Northwest Semitic : ""; Phoenician :  ; Biblical Hebrew / Masoretic : ["; n  an ]") was a Semitic - speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd ___MASK48___ BC . In the ___MASK20___ it corresponds to the Levant , in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the Hebrew ___MASK20___ , i . e ., the area of Israel , Philistia , Phoenicia , and other nations . Isaac (" Yiçaq ", "[ he ] will laugh "; " Isaak "; or "") as described in the Hebrew ___MASK20___ and the Qur ' an , was the second son of Abraham , the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah , and the father of Jacob and Esau . According to the Book of Genesis , Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born , and Sarah was past 90 . Hebrew ___MASK20___ or Hebrew Scriptures is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the " Tanakh ", the canonical collection of Jewish texts , which is the common textual source of several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament . They are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew , with some passages in Biblical Aramaic ( in the books of Daniel , Ezra and a few others ). Ephraim ; ( Hebrew :          /          , " Efráyim " " Ep  ráyim / Ep  ryim ") was , according to the Book of ___MASK24___ , the second son of Joseph and Asenath . Asenath was an Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph as wife , and the daughter of Potipherah , a priest of On . Ephraim was born in Egypt before the arrival of the children of Israel from Canaan . Pharaoh is the common title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt from the First ___MASK98___ ( c . 3150 ) until the Macedonian conquest in 305 BC , although the actual term " Pharaoh " was not used contemporaneously for a ruler until circa 1200 BCE . Sarah or Sara (; " arra " Arabic : " Sra ";) was the wife and also the half  sister of ___MASK84___ and the mother of Isaac as described in the Hebrew ___MASK20___ and the Quran . Her name was originally Sarai . According to Genesis 17 : 15 , God changed her name to Sarah as part of a covenant after Hagar bore ___MASK84___ his first son , Ishmael . Esau ( Hebrew : ; Standard Hebrew : " Esav "; Tiberian Hebrew : w ; ISO 259 - 3 " eaw "; " Hsau " " saw "; meaning " Hairy " or " Rough "), in the Hebrew ___MASK20___ , is the older son of Isaac . He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis , and by the prophets , Obadiah and Malachi . The New Testament of the Christian ___MASK20___ alludes to him in the Epistle to the Romans and in the Epistle to the Hebrews . The Vulgate is a late fourth - century Latin translation of the ___MASK20___ that became , during the 16th century , the Catholic Church ' s officially promulgated Latin version of the ___MASK20___ . Bilhah (        " unworried ", Standard Hebrew " Bilha ", Tiberian Hebrew " Bilhâ ") is a person mentioned in the Book of ___MASK24___ . describes her as Laban ' s handmaid , who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel ' s marriage to Jacob . When Rachel failed to have children , Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob " to wife " to bear him children . Bilhah gave birth to two sons , who Rachel claimed as her own and named Dan and Naphtali . expressly calls Bilhah Jacob ' s concubine , a " pilegesh ". The ___MASK79___ is the first section of the Christian ___MASK20___ , based primarily upon the Hebrew ___MASK20___ ( or Tanakh ), a collection of religious writings by ancient Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God . It is the counterpart to the New Testament , the second portion of the Christian ___MASK20___ . The ___MASK79___ canon varies between Christian Churches . Protestants have a version with 39 books . Catholics have a version with 46 books , and Eastern Orthodox , and Oriental Orthodox Churches choose the ___MASK79___ version with 49 books . Asenath ( / æsnæ / ; Hebrew :        , Modern Osnát , Tiberian åsna ) or Asenith ( in modern times sometimes transliterated as Osnat ) is a figure in the Book of ___MASK24___ ( 41 : 45 , 41 : 50 - 52 ) , an Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph , son of Jacob , to be his wife . The daughter of Potipherah , a priest of On , she bore Joseph two sons , Manasseh and Ephraim , who became the patriarchs of the Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim . Modern scholarship says her name derives from the Egyptian `` she who belongs to ( the goddess ) Neith '' , and that her name may be phonetically transliterated from the New Kingdom Egyptian hieroglyphs as Ns - Nt . Ishmael (, " Yišmael "; " Ismal "; Classical / Qur ' anic Arabic :            ; Modern Arabic :            " Isml ") is a figure in the Tanakh and the Qur ' an and was ___MASK84___ ' s first son according to Jews , Christians , and Muslims . Ishmael was born to ___MASK84___ ' s and Sarah ' s handmaiden Hagar .. According to the Genesis account , he died at the age of 137 . The Book of ___MASK24___ ( from the Latin Vulgate , in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek  , meaning " origin " " Brš ", " In [ the ] beginning ") is the first book of the Hebrew ___MASK20___ ( the Tanakh ) and the Christian Old Testament . In the Book of ___MASK24___ , Zilpah (        " meaning uncertain ," Standard Hebrew " Zilpa ", Tiberian Hebrew " Zilpâ ") was Leah ' s handmaid , whom Leah gave to Jacob " to wife " to bear him children . Zilpah gave birth to two sons , whom Leah claimed as her own and named Gad and Asher . Jacob , later given the name Israel , is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites . According to the Book of ___MASK24___ , Jacob ( ') was the third Hebrew progenitor with whom God made a covenant . He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca , the grandson of ___MASK84___ , Sarah and of 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 . Bethuel (" B  êl ",  house of God ), in the Hebrew ___MASK20___ , was an Aramean man , the youngest son of Nahor and Milcah , the nephew of Abraham , and the father of Laban and Rebecca . The Tanakh ( or ; also " Tenakh ", " Tenak ", " Tanach ") or Mikra or Hebrew ___MASK20___ is the canonical collection of Jewish texts , which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament . These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew , with some passages in Biblical Aramaic ( in the books of Daniel , Ezra and a few others ). The traditional Hebrew text is known as the Masoretic Text . The Tanakh consists of twenty - four books . ___MASK84___ ( Avraham ), originally Abram , is the first of the three patriarchs of Judaism . His story features in the holy texts of all the Abrahamic religions and ___MASK84___ plays a prominent role as an example of faith in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam .