For many centuries Jews were a constant
irritation to European Christians. If ever there was a hated nation, it was
them. Allegations of abduction and cannibalization of Christian children were
common in many parts of Europe, particularly Germany. Their atrocities on
debtors were the topic of European literature and they made themselves intimidating
by having gold implants in their teeth. But their greatest intimidation was
their assumed and publicized claim that they were descendants of Abraham, the
most respected Biblical character who is credited with introducing the concepts
of day of judgment, heaven, and hell. Their extreme maltreatment at the hands
of the Nazis was perhaps the culmination of that simmering hatred.
The European Christians found a way to get rid
of them by accepting their claim on Palestinian lands as per a covenant done
between God and Abraham mentioned in the Torah. The new state was called Israel
after the term children of Israel mentioned in the Torah/Pentateuch/Old
Testament. The term children of Israel signifies the members of the clan or tribe
of Mr. Israel and their descendants
As to how the children of the real or mythical
Mr. Israel became the descendants of Abraham is an interesting story which can
be traced in the Old Testament. It turns out that it was an adopted name of Jacob
the grandson of Abraham and the son of Issac. When one reads the following
verses of the Book of Moses in King James version of the Holy Bible, it becomes
apparent that the name-change and its occasions were inserted in the text that
contained only the history of Jacob. This
forgery may have been done when the Torah was published in the Masoretic version. The pages of earlier authentic copies
such as the codices of Sinaiticus and Aleppo that could expose this forgery
have been destroyed in some way or the other.
Given below are the verses which mention Israel
versus Jacob and anyone who has edited a manuscript should be able to recognize
the act of forgery and its poor implementation in this text.
Genesis 32
24 And Jacob
was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the
day.
25 And when he saw that he prevailed not
against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob’s
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he
said unto him, What is thy name ? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he
said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as
a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked him, and said,
Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that
thou dost ask after my name ? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the
face of God] : for I have seen God face to
face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose
upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of
the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto
this day ; because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that
shrank.
Genesis 33
18 And Jacob came to Shalem,
a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from
Padan-aram ; and pitched his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a
field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor,
Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.
20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel [God the God of Israel].
Genesis 34
7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field
when they heard it : and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth,
because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter ;
which thing
ought not to be done.
Genesis 35
9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram,
and blessed him.
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob : thy name
shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name ; and
he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God
Almighty : be fruitful and multiply : a nation and a company of nations shall
be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins ;
12 and
the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy
seed after thee will I give the land.
13 And God went up from him in the place where
he talked with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the
place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone : and he poured a
drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
15 And Jacob called the name of the
place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
19 2And Rachel died, and was buried in the way
to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave
: that is the pillar of Rachel’s
grave unto this day.
21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent
beyond the tower of Edar.
22. And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in
that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine : and
Israel heard it.
27 2And Jacob came unto Isaac his father
unto Mamre, unto the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and
Isaac sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and
fourscore years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and
was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days : and his sons
Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 36
31 And these are the kings that reigned
in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis 37
1 And Jacob dwelt in the
land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations
of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the
flock with his brethren ; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and
with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives : and Joseph brought unto his father
their evil report.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than
all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made
him a coat of many colors.
4 And when his brethren saw that
their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could
not speak peaceably unto him.
13 And Israel
said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem ? come,
and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
Genesis 38
34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 42
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn
in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another ?
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there
is corn in Egypt : get you down thither, and buy for us from thence ; that we
may live, and not die.
3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy
corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob
sent not with his brethren ; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall
him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn
among those that came : for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
29 And they came unto Jacob their father
unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them ; saying,
30 The man, who is the lord of the land,
spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
36 And Jacob their father said unto
them, Me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and
Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things
are against me.
Genesis 43
6 And Israel said, Wherefore
dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a
brother ?
7 And they said, The man asked us
straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet
alive ? have ye another brother ? and we told him according to the tenor
of these words : Could we
certainly know that he would say,
Bring your brother down ?
8 And Judah said unto Israel his
father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go ; that we may live, and
not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
9 I will be surety for him ; of my
hand shalt thou require him : if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before
thee, then let me bear the blame for ever :
10 for except we had lingered,
surely now we had returned this second
time.
11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so
now, do this ; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down
the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and
myrrh, nuts and almonds :
12 and take double money in your
hand ; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it
again in your hand ; peradventure it was an oversight.
Genesis 45
21 And the children of Israel did so :
and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave
them provision for the way.
Genesis 46
1 And Israel took his journey with all
that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his
father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in the
visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy
father : fear not to go down into Egypt ; for I will there make of thee a great
nation.
4 I will go down with thee into Egypt ; and I
will also surely bring thee up again : and Joseph shall put his hand
upon thine eyes.
5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba : and the
sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and
their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their
cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came
into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him :
7 sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his
daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into
Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which
came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons : Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
26 All the souls that came with Jacob
into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives,
all the souls were threescore and six ;
27 and the sons of Joseph, which
were borne him in Egypt, were two souls : all the souls of the house of Jacob,
which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen
; and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 And Joseph made ready his
chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented
himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now
let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Genesis 47
27 And Israel dwelt in the
land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen ; and they had possessions therein, and
grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the
land of Egypt seventeen years : so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty
and seven years.
29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die : and he called his
son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I
pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and
truly with me ; bury me not, I pray
thee, in Egypt :
30 but I will lie with my fathers,
and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he
said, I will do as thou hast said.
31 And he said, Swear unto me. And
he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
Genesis 48
2 And one told Jacob, and said,
Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee : and Israel strengthened
himself, and sat upon the bed.
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4 and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee
fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people ;
and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting
possession.
8 And Israel beheld Joseph’s
sons, and said, Who are these ?
9 And Joseph said unto his father,
They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he
said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
10 Now the eyes of Israel
were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him ; and he
kissed them, and embraced them.
11 And Israel said unto
Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face : and, lo, God hath showed me also
thy seed.
12 And Joseph brought them out from
between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
13 And Joseph took them both,
Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his
left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto
him.
14 And Israel stretched out
his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the
younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly ;
for Manasseh was the firstborn.
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In
thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh : and
he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold,
I die ; but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your
fathers.
Genesis 49
2 Gather
yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob ; and hearken unto Israel
your father.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce
; and their wrath, for it was cruel : I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter
them in Israel.
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel
: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them ;
every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
33 And when Jacob had
made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and
yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis 50
1 And Joseph fell upon his father’s
face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants
the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for
him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the
Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Note: If the Egyptians had so much
respect and regard for Mr. Israel that they mourned his death for seventy days,
then why hasn’t any archeologist found any relic related to him in the
excavations in Egypt?
