Jacob (son of Isaac)
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Son of Isaac and Rebekah and younger twin brother of Esau. He dreams at Bethel and later receives the name Israel.
Direct relationships 80
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Collected relationship evidence
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Collection & rightsSource evidence (112)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
With 112 passages the text is not repeated here: each link opens its passage in the WEB text.
- Genesis25:21–26, 25:27–28, 25:29–34, 27:1–21, 27:22–29, 27:30–40, 27:41–46, 28:1–4, 28:6–9, 28:10–19, 28:20–22, 29:1–15, 29:17–22, 29:23–28, 29:29–30, 30:1–8, 30:9–13, 30:14–18, 30:25–36, 30:37–43, 31:1–16, 31:17–43, 31:44–49, 31:50–55, 32:1–12, 32:13–23, 32:24–30, 32:28, 32:31–32, 33:1–4, 33:5–20, 34:1, 34:2–24, 34:27–31, 35:1–15, 35:16–20, 35:21, 35:22–26, 35:27–29, 36:1–8, 37:1–11, 37:12–22, 37:29–36, 42:1–5, 42:10–38, 43:1–28, 45:1–3, 45:9–28, 46:1–4, 46:5–7, 46:8–27, 46:30–34, 47:1–10, 47:13–31, 48:1–12, 48:13–16, 48:17–22, 49:1–27, 49:28–33, 50:1–21
- Exodus1:1–7
- Leviticus26:40–45
- Deuteronomy1:6–8, 6:10–15, 9:1–6, 9:25–29, 29:10–15, 30:15–20, 34:1–4
- Joshua24:1–13, 24:32
- 1 Samuel12:6–12
- 2 Samuel23:1–7
- 1 Kings18:30–35, 18:36–39
- 2 Kings13:22–25, 17:34–41
- 1 Chronicles1:34–37, 2:1–2, 5:1–3, 6:33–38, 7:28–29, 16:7–13, 16:14–22, 29:10–13, 29:14–19
- 2 Chronicles30:6–9
- Ezra8:15–20
- Psalms105:7–15, 105:23–38
- Isaiah58:13–14
- Jeremiah33:23–26
- Hosea12:1–6, 12:7–14
- Malachi1:1–5
- Matthew1:1–17, 8:5–13, 22:23–33
- Mark12:18–27
- Luke1:26–38, 3:23–38, 13:22–30, 20:27–40
- John4:1–26
- Acts3:11–26, 7:1–8, 7:9–16, 7:30–34, 7:44–50
- Romans9:6–13
- Hebrews11:8–12, 11:17–22
AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-20
Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.
Unresolved interpretation: Identity of Jacob’s wrestling opponent
- The narrator describes the opponent as a man.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- GEN 32:24–30, engwebp
24Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
26The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
27He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
29Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.
30Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
- GEN 32:24–30, engwebp
- Jacob says he has seen God face to face. This speech is not automatically converted into an identity assertion.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- GEN 32:24–30, engwebp
24Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
26The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
27He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
29Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.
30Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
- GEN 32:24–30, engwebp
Preserve both narrative and speech; withhold a definitive identity edge.
Unresolved interpretation: The tomb Acts 7:16 says Abraham bought from the children of Hamor of Shechem
- Acts 7:15–16 reads: “Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers; and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.”
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- ACT 7:9–16, engwebp
9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him
10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
13On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.
14Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
15Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers;
16and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
- ACT 7:9–16, engwebp
- Genesis 33:18–19 says that Jacob came to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, and bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- GEN 33:5–20, engwebp
5He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
6Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
7Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
8Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
9Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
10Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
11Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
12Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”
13Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
14Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
15Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
19He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
- GEN 33:5–20, engwebp
- Genesis 49:29–32 has Jacob charge his sons to bury him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place, and 50:13 says that his sons buried him there.
Source evidence (2)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- GEN 49:28–33, engwebp
28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
29He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
31There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
32the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”
33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.
- GEN 50:1–21, engwebp
1Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
2Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
4When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
6Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
7Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company.
10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
12His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
13for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
14Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
16They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,
17‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
21Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
- GEN 49:28–33, engwebp
- Joshua 24:32 says, “They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.” Where the WEB reads silver, the Korean Revised Version reads 금 일백개, gold; at Genesis 33:19 it reads 은 일백개, silver.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- JOS 24:32, engwebp
32They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
- JOS 24:32, engwebp
This collection records each passage as it reads. Acts 7:16 names Abraham, Hamor and Shechem, so it is evidence for those three entries; the collection does not decide how the tomb of Acts 7:16 relates to the ground Jacob bought at Shechem in Genesis 33:19, to the parcel of ground at Shechem where Joseph’s bones were buried in Joshua 24:32, or to the cave in the field of Machpelah that Abraham bought from Ephron.
All 80 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending
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Isaac — Father of — Jacob (son of Isaac)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 1:34–37, Acts 7:1–8, Genesis 25:21–26, Luke 3:23–38, Matthew 1:1–17
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Rebekah — Mother of — Jacob (son of Isaac)
Evidence: Genesis 25:21–26
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Esau — Sibling of — Jacob (son of Isaac)
Evidence: Genesis 25:21–26, Malachi 1:1–5
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Spouse of — Rachel
Evidence: Genesis 29:23–28
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Spouse of — Leah
Evidence: Genesis 29:23–28
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Departed from — Beersheba
Evidence: Genesis 28:10–19
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Headed toward — Haran
Evidence: Genesis 28:10–19
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Named — Bethel
Evidence: Genesis 28:10–19
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Reuben
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, 1 Chronicles 5:1–3, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Simeon (son of Jacob)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Levi (son of Jacob)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, 1 Chronicles 6:33–38, Ezra 8:15–20, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Judah (son of Jacob)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26, Luke 3:23–38, Matthew 1:1–17
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Issachar
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Zebulun
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Joseph (son of Jacob)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, 1 Chronicles 5:1–3, 1 Chronicles 7:28–29, Acts 7:9–16, Genesis 35:22–26, John 4:1–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Benjamin (son of Jacob)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Dan
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Naphtali
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Gad (son of Jacob)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Asher
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, Genesis 35:22–26
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Traveled to — Egypt
Evidence: Genesis 46:5–7
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Father of — Dinah
Evidence: Genesis 34:1
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Jacob (son of Isaac) — Built a house and stayed — Succoth (Jacob’s journey)
Evidence: Genesis 33:5–20
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Dreamed (1) — Jacob’s dream at Bethel
A relationship with an event rests on the passages the event cites: each event’s page has them.
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Bought the birthright (1) — Esau sells his birthright
A relationship with an event rests on the passages the event cites: each event’s page has them.
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Appears in the narrated event (55) — Birth of Esau and Jacob, Esau and Jacob grow up, What Isaac asked of Esau, and what Rebekah told Jacob to do, Isaac blesses Jacob, Esau arrives to find the blessing already given, Esau’s grudge, and the word to flee to Laban in Haran, The charge to go to Paddan Aram and take a wife there, Esau takes Mahalath, Ishmael’s daughter, Jacob makes his vow, Meeting Rachel at the well, and coming to Laban’s house, Serving seven years for Rachel, Bilhah given to Rachel, and another seven years served, Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali, Zilpah bears Gad and Asher, The mandrakes, and the birth of Issachar, Jacob and Laban settle the wages, The peeled rods set before the flocks, The word to return, and the answer of Rachel and Leah, Jacob flees and Laban overtakes him at Mount Gilead, Jacob and Laban make a covenant, The heap and the pillar set as a witness, and the parting, Mahanaim, and the message sent to Esau, The present sent ahead, and the crossing of the Jabbok, Jacob wrestles and is named Israel, Passing Peniel, and the limp, Esau and Jacob reunited, The brothers greet and part, and the coming to Shechem, The suit of Shechem and Hamor, and the answer that made circumcision the condition, The city plundered, and Jacob’s rebuke, Going up to Bethel, building the altar, and the name Israel given again, Benjamin’s birth and Rachel’s death, Pitching the tent beyond the tower of Eder, Isaac dies at Mamre, and Esau and Jacob bury him, Esau’s wives and sons, and the move to the hill country of Seir, Joseph’s two dreams, and his brothers’ hatred, Sent to Shechem, and the plot at Dothan, Reuben finds the pit empty, and the tunic is brought to the father, Jacob sends ten sons down to Egypt, The charge of spying, and Simeon kept behind, Judah gives surety and they go down with Benjamin, Joseph weeps aloud and makes himself known, The word to fetch the father, and Jacob hearing the news, The sacrifice at Beersheba, and the word to go down, Jacob’s family moves to Egypt, The names of Israel’s household who came into Egypt, The charge to say they keep livestock, before Pharaoh, Jacob stands before Pharaoh and blesses him, Egypt through the famine, and the oath about the burial, Jacob recalls Luz, and takes Ephraim and Manasseh as his own, Israel blesses his grandsons, The younger set before the elder, and the portion given to Joseph, Jacob tells his twelve sons what will befall them, Jacob’s final instructions and death, The burial of the father, and the brothers reassured, The sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob
A relationship with an event rests on the passages the event cites: each event’s page has them.
Verses tagged with this entry
Names in the World English Bible text that carry this entry’s tag. They are carried over from the tags on the Korean Revised Version, which are matched by name inside chapters that already have collected evidence, and a verse where the English says “he” carries none. All await human review. They are a separate list from the source passages above. An empty list does not mean the entry is absent from the text.
With 206 verses the text is not repeated here: each chapter lists its verse numbers, and each number opens its verse.
- Genesis 25 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34
- Genesis 27 6, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 30, 36, 41, 42, 46
- Genesis 28 1, 5, 6, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20
- Genesis 29 1, 4, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 28
- Genesis 30 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 19, 25, 29, 31, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42
- Genesis 31 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 17, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 43, 45, 47, 51, 53, 54
- Genesis 32 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32
- Genesis 33 1, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18
- Genesis 34 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 13, 19, 25, 27, 30
- Genesis 35 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29
- Genesis 36 6
- Genesis 37 1, 2
- Genesis 42 1, 4, 29, 36
- Genesis 45 25, 27
- Genesis 46 2, 5, 6, 8, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28
- Genesis 47 7, 8, 9, 10, 28
- Genesis 48 2
- Genesis 49 1, 2, 7, 24, 33
- Genesis 50 24
- Exodus 1 1, 5
- Leviticus 26 42
- Deuteronomy 1 8
- Deuteronomy 6 10
- Deuteronomy 9 5, 27
- Deuteronomy 29 13
- Deuteronomy 30 20
- Deuteronomy 34 4
- Joshua 24 4, 32
- 1 Samuel 12 8
- 2 Samuel 23 1
- 1 Kings 18 31
- 2 Kings 13 23
- 2 Kings 17 34
- 1 Chronicles 16 13, 17
- Psalms 105 6, 10, 23
- Isaiah 58 14
- Jeremiah 33 26
- Hosea 12 12
- Malachi 1 2
- Matthew 8 11
- Matthew 22 32
- Mark 12 26
- Luke 1 33
- Luke 3 34
- Luke 13 28
- Luke 20 37
- John 4 5, 6, 12
- Acts 3 13
- Acts 7 8, 12, 14, 15, 32, 46
- Romans 9 13
- Hebrews 11 9, 20, 21
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Jacob (son of Isaac) (person-jacob) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/jacob Current wording: Son of Isaac and Rebekah and younger twin brother of Esau. He dreams at Bethel and later receives the name Israel. Cited evidence: 1CH 1:34–37, engwebp / 1CH 2:1–2, engwebp / 1CH 5:1–3, engwebp / 1CH 6:33–38, engwebp / 1CH 7:28–29, engwebp / 1CH 16:7–13, engwebp / 1CH 16:14–22, engwebp / 1CH 29:10–13, engwebp (and 104 more of 112) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.