Genesis25

¹Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

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

³Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

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

⁵Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;

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

⁷These are all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, 175 years.

⁸Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.

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

¹⁰the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

¹¹It came about after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

¹²Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave woman, bore to Abraham;

¹³and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

¹⁴Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

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

¹⁶These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their tribes.

¹⁷These are the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

¹⁸They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt going toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.

¹⁹Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac;

²⁰and 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.

²¹Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children; and the Lord answered him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

²²But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why am I in this condition?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

²³And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people will be stronger than the other; And the older will serve the younger.”

²⁴When her days leading to the delivery were at an end, behold, there were twins in her womb.

²⁵Now the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

²⁶Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a civilized man, living in tents.

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

²⁹When Jacob had cooked a stew one day, Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted;

³⁰and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a mouthful of that red stuff there, for I am exhausted.” Therefore he was called Edom by name.

³¹But Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”

³²Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?”

³³And Jacob said, “First swear to me”; so he swore an oath to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

³⁴Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. So Esau despised his birthright.