In his deathbed blessing of his sons, the patriarch Jacob foretold: “The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong. ” Many Jewish scholars of the past associated those words with the Messiah.
Patriarhs Jēkabs, pirms nāves svētīdams savus dēlus, paredzēja: ” Scepteris nezudīs no Jūdas, nedz valdības zizlis no viņa kājām, tiekāms tas ŠILO nāks.