twelve patriarchs

American  

plural noun

1. patriarch5

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Example Sentences

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is, besides this, full of ideas and language that are strikingly similar, on the one hand, to the literature of the sect and, on the other, to that of Christianity.

From The New Yorker

In the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs—assigned by Charles to the end of the second pre-Christian century—meekness and mercy are emphasized almost to the same degree that they are in the Gospels themselves.

From The New Yorker

Morgan’s researches do not seem to have furnished him with the arms of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but those of the twelve patriarchs are given by him and others.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Stephen spake of Isaac and of Jacob, and of the twelve patriarchs; and of how Joseph had been sold into Egypt, and was in time followed by his Father and Brothers and their descendants; who remained in Egypt four hundred years, according to what the Lord had told Abraham.

From Project Gutenberg

The remaining chapters of this book are taken up with the removal of Jacob and his family into Egypt, and their settlement there; Joseph's actings during the remaining years of famine; Jacob's blessing the twelve patriarchs; his death and burial.

From Project Gutenberg