--- title: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: God called Abram (later Abraham) to leave his home for a land God would show him, promising to make him a great nation with descendants a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Abraham, Isaac and Jacob # Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Lesson 4 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/0/) — God called Abram (later Abraham) to leave his home for a land God would show him, promising to make him a great nation with descendants as many as the stars; Jews, Christians and Muslims all honour him as a father of faith. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/1/) — Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age, but Isaac, whose name means "he laughs", was born; Abraham also welcomed three strangers with food and rest, who turned out to be God's messengers. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/2/) — In a hard story, God told Abraham to offer Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead; many read it as showing that God does not want child sacrifice and that God provides. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/3/) — Isaac's son Jacob tricked his twin Esau out of his birthright and blessing, ran away, dreamed of a ladder to heaven, later wrestled all night and was renamed Israel; his twelve sons became the twelve tribes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/4/) — Years later Esau ran to meet Jacob and hugged him instead of taking revenge. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/5/) — For a child today: faith means trusting without knowing every step, welcome strangers kindly, cheating breaks trust, and forgiveness can heal even old family hurts. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/6/) — God told Abram to leave his home for a land God would show him, promising to make him a great nation. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/7/) — Jews, Christians and Muslims all honour Abraham as a father of their faith; Muslims call him Ibrahim. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/8/) — God told Abraham to look at the stars and try to count them: his descendants would be as many. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/9/) — Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; their son was named Isaac, meaning "he laughs". - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/10/) — Abraham welcomed three travellers with food and rest; they turned out to be messengers of God. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/11/) — God told Abraham to offer his son Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/12/) — Many read the testing of Abraham as showing that God does not want child sacrifice and that he provides; it is a hard story people still discuss. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/13/) — Jacob and Esau were twin brothers, the sons of Isaac and Rebekah. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/14/) — Jacob tricked Esau out of his birthright and his father's blessing. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/15/) — Running away from Esau, Jacob dreamed of a ladder to heaven with angels on it, and God promised to be with him. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/16/) — Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God". - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/17/) — Jacob's twelve sons became the twelve tribes of Israel. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/18/) — Years later Esau ran to meet Jacob and hugged him instead of taking revenge. - ← previous: [Noah and the Tower of Babel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)