Jacob

Jacob was born to Isaac and his wife Rebekah as the younger of a pair of twin brothers.Jacob tricked his older brother Esau into selling him his birthright.Also,as the younger son,Jacob was not supposed to recieve his father's blessing,but he tricked Isaac into thinking that he was Esau and blessing him in his place.After this happened,Jacob runs off to the land of his relatives where he falls in love with Rachel,and eventually marries her after working for her father for fourteen years.He prospers there,but he decides to return to Canaan even though he fears his brother's wrath.On his way to Canaan,Jacob is visited by an Angel and wrestles with him,proclaiming that he will not release him until the Angel blesses him.So,Jacob is blessed once again,this time by an Angel.Later God renames him Israel.Jacob has twelve sons,who later become the twelve tribes of Israel.When a famine comes to the land,Jacob ends up in Egypt where his favorite son Joseph, who he thought was dead,had become a high ranking government official.Joseph died in Egypt and was carried all the way back to Canaan to be buried with his father.