Genesis 25
1 Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
3 Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were the Asshurim, the Letushim, and the Leummim.
4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah.
5 Abraham gave everything he had to Isaac.
6 To the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still alive he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the land of the East.
7 These are the years of Abraham’s life: he lived 175 years.
8 Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, elderly and satisfied, and was gathered to his people.
9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is opposite Mamre.
10 It was the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there.
11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
12 This is the line of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
13 These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names and according to their line: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps: twelve princes according to their peoples.
17 These are the years of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
18 They lived from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt, toward Assyria. He settled in the presence of all his brothers.
19 This is the account of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac.
20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as his wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21 Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and Rebekah his wife became pregnant.
22 The children struggled within her, and she said, “If this is so, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.
23 The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will separate from within you; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
25 The first came out red, his whole body like a hairy cloak, and they named him Esau.
26 Afterward his brother came out, with his hand holding Esau’s heel, and he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
27 The boys grew up. Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; Jacob was a quiet man who lived in tents.
28 Isaac loved Esau, because he enjoyed the game he brought; Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 One day Jacob was cooking a stew, and Esau came in from the field, exhausted.
30 Esau said to Jacob, “Let me gulp down some of that red stuff, that red stuff there, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was named Edom.
31 Jacob replied, “Sell me your birthright today.”
32 Esau said, “I’m about to die; what good is the birthright to me?”
33 Jacob said, “Swear to me today.” He swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
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