Genesis 25

¹Abraham took another wife , whose name was Keturah .

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

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

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

⁵Abraham gave all he had to Isaac .

⁶But 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 .

⁷These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life , 175 years .

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

⁹Isaac 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 ,

¹⁰the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites . There Abraham was buried , with Sarah his wife .

¹¹After the death of Abraham , God blessed Isaac his son . And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi .

¹²These are the generations of Ishmael , Abraham’s son , whom Hagar the Egyptian , Sarah’s servant , bore to Abraham .

¹³These are the names of the sons of Ishmael , named in the order of their birth : Nebaioth , the firstborn of Ishmael ; and 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 encampments , twelve princes according to their tribes .

¹⁷(These are the years of the life of Ishmael : 137 years . He breathed his last and died , and was gathered to his people .)

¹⁸They settled from Havilah to Shur , which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria . He settled over against all his kinsmen .

¹⁹These are 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 .

²¹And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife , because she was barren . And the Lord granted his prayer , and Rebekah his wife conceived .

²²The 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.

²³And 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 .

²⁴When her days to give birth were completed , behold , there were twins in her womb .

²⁵The first came out red , all his body like a hairy cloak , so they called his name Esau .

²⁶Afterward 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.

²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter , a man of the field , while Jacob was a quiet man , dwelling in tents .

²⁸Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game , but Rebekah loved Jacob .

²⁹Once when Jacob was cooking stew , Esau came in from the field , and he was exhausted .

³⁰And Esau said to Jacob , Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted ! (Therefore his name was called Edom . )

³¹Jacob said , Sell me your birthright now .

³²Esau said , I am about to die ; of what use is a birthright to me?

³³Jacob said , Swear to me now . So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob .

³⁴Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew , and he ate and drank and rose and went his way . Thus Esau despised his birthright .