Genesis 25

Abraham’s Old Age and Descendants

1Now Abraham took another wife—her name was Keturah.

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

3Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s sons were Asshurim, Letushim and Leummim.

4Midian’s sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah’s sons.

5Now Abraham gave everything that he had to Isaac,

6but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham had given gifts and sent them away from his son Isaac while he was still living, eastward to the land of the east.

7Now these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life that he lived: 175 years.

8So Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, old and satisfied. Then he was gathered to his peoples.

9Then Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, next to Mamre,

10the field that Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. There Abraham is buried along with Sarah his wife.

11After Abraham’s death, God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

12Now these are the genealogies of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian slave-girl, bore to Abraham.

13These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names according to their descendants: Ishmael’s firstborn, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

14Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

15Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedem.

16These are Ishmael’s sons and these are their names, by their unwalled and walled settlements, twelve princes according to their clans.

17These are the years of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He breathed his last, died and was gathered to his peoples.

18Then they dwelled from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria. Over against all his brothers he fell.

Esau and Jacob

19Now these are the genealogies of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham fathered Isaac.

20Isaac was 40 years old when he took for himself Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

21Isaac prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife because she was barren. Adonai answered his plea and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

22But the children struggled with one another inside her, and she said, “If it’s like this, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of Adonai.

23Adonai said to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your body will be separated. One people will be stronger than the other people, but the older will serve the younger.”

24When her time came to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb.

25Now the first came out reddish, all of him was like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

26Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding onto Esau’s heel—so he was named Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when he fathered them.

27When the boys grew up, Esau became a man knowledgeable in hunting, an outdoorsman, while Jacob was a mild man, remaining in tents.

28Now Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29Now Jacob cooked a stew. When Esau came in from the field, he was exhausted,

30so Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me some of this really red stuff, because I’m exhausted”—that is why he is called Edom.

31So Jacob said, “Sell your birthright to me today.”

32Esau said, “Look, I’m about to die. Of whatever use is this to me—a birthright?”

33Jacob said, “Make a pledge to me now.” So he made a pledge to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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

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Genesis 25

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1Forsooth Abraham wedded another wife, Keturah by name,

2which childed to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

3Also Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. Forsooth the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

4And soothly of Midian was born Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah; all these were the sons of Keturah.

5And Abraham gave all things which he had in possession to Isaac;

6soothly he gave gifts to the sons of [the] concubines, that is, secondary wives; and Abraham, while he lived yet, separated them from Isaac, his son, to the east coast.

7Forsooth the days of the life of Abraham were an hundred and threescore and fifteen years;

8and he failed, and died in [a] good eld age, and of great age, and full of days, and he was gathered to his people.

9And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the double den, which is set in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, even against Mamre,

10which den he bought of the sons of Heth; and he was buried there, and Sarah his wife.

11And after the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son, which dwelled beside the pit by name of him that liveth and seeth.

12These be the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar Egyptian, handmaid of Sarah, childed to Abraham;

13and these be the names of the sons of Ishmael, in their names and generations. The first begotten of Ishmael was Nebajoth, afterward Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

14and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

15and Hadar, and Tema, and Jetur, and Naphish, and Kedemah.

16These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were the names by castles, and towns of them, [the] twelve princes of their lineages.

17And the years of [the] life of Ishmael were made an hundred and seven and thirty years, and he failed, and died, and was put to his people.

18Forsooth he inhabited from Havilah till to Shur, that beholdeth Egypt, as men entereth into [the] Assyrians; he died before all his brethren.

19Also these be the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac,

20and when Isaac was of forty years, he wedded a wife, Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel, of Syria, of Mesopotamia, the sister of Laban.

21And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, for she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and gave conceiving to Rebecca.

22But the little children were hurtled together in her womb; and she said, If it was so to coming [or to come] to me, what need was it to conceive? And she went to ask counsel of the Lord,

23which answered, and said, Two folks be in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy womb, and one people shall overturn a people, and the more shall serve the less.

24Then the time of child-bearing came, and lo! two children were found in her womb.

25He that went out first was red, and all rough in the manner of a skin; and his name was called Esau.

26Anon the other went out, and held with his hand the heel of his brother; and therefore he called him Jacob#25:26 The name sounds like the Hebrew for ‘He who takes by the heel, or supplants’.. Isaac was sixty years eld, when the little children were born.

27And when they were waxen, Esau was a man knowing of hunting, and a man an earth-tiller; forsooth Jacob was a simple man, and dwelled in tabernacles.

28Isaac loved Esau, for he ate of the hunting of Esau; and Rebecca loved Jacob.

29Soothly Jacob seethed pottage; and when Esau came weary from the field,

30he said to Jacob, Give thou to me of this red seething, for I am full weary; for which cause his name was called Edom or Red.

31And Jacob said to him, Sell to me the rights of the first begotten child.

32Esau answered, Lo! I die, what shall the first begotten things profit to me?

33Jacob said, Therefore swear thou to me. Therefore Esau swore, and sold the first engendered things.

34And so when he had taken bread and pottage, Esau ate and drank, and went forth, and charged or cared little that he had sold the rights of the first begotten child.

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