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Genesis 25

¹Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.

²She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.

³Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites.

⁴The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

⁵Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.

⁶But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

⁷Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.

⁸Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.

⁹His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,

¹⁰the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. [106] There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

¹¹After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

¹²This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.

¹³These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

¹⁴Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

¹⁵Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

¹⁶These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.

¹⁷Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.

¹⁸His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward [107] all the tribes related to them.

¹⁹This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram [108] and sister of Laban the Aramean.

²¹Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

²²The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.

²³The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

²⁴When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

²⁵The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. [109]

²⁶After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. [110] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

²⁷The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.

²⁸Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

²⁹Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.

³⁰He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom. [111])

³¹Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

³²“Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”

³³But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.

³⁴Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.