Gen-25
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v1
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
v2
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
v3
Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
v4
The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
v5
Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
v6
But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
v7
These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years.
v8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
v9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,
v10
the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
v11
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
v12
These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
v13
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
v14
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
v15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
v16
These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.
v17
(These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)
v18
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.The Birth of Esau and Jacob
v19
These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac,
v20
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
v21
And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
v22
The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.
v23
And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.”
v24
When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.
v25
The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.
v26
Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
v27
When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
v28
Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.Esau Sells His Birthright
v29
Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.
v30
And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.)
v31
Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.”
v32
Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?“
v33
Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
v34
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.