Patriarchs
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Biblical figures Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, or the ancestor-figures between Adam and Abraham
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Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897. Isaac blessing his son, as painted by Giotto di Bondone Jacob Wrestling with the Angel by Eugène Delacroix
The patriarchs (Hebrew: אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor (according to the Abrahamic tradition) of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as "the patriarchs", and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age.
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