The Life of Jacob – A Visual Much has been written about the
life of Jacob. To go from a deceiver and a thief to later be
known as a “prince of God” – is truly a remarkable story. Like
Abraham, much of what we can say about Jacob and his life is
left unsaid by the Biblical narrative. This only becomes obvious
when we lay out his life in a chronology. In an attempt to
illuminate this pillar of our faith a little further, here is
Jacob’s life laid out on a timeline: How Old Was Jacob? If this
timeline is accurate, and most conservative scholarship says it
is, then Jacob was 83 when he married Rachel and Leah. 83 years
old! That is an impressive feat in and of itself, but to father
the foundation of a nation – amazing. But why did he wait so
long? We know that Esau, who was the same age as Jacob (twins)
got married at the age of forty. This would have been a
reasonable age. Forty meant he was established able to sustain a
wife and household. I doubt that Jacob did not also worked hard
to prepare himself to recei