25:1 ABRAHAM TOOK another wife, and her name was Keturah. |
25:2 And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. |
25:3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. |
25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. |
25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. |
25:6 But to the sons of his concubines [Hagar and Keturah] Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them to the east country, away from Isaac his son [of promise]. |
25:7 The days of Abraham's life were 175 years. |
25:8 Then Abraham's spirit was released, and he died at a good (ample, full) old age, an old man, satisfied {and} satiated, and was gathered to his people. |
25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre, |
25:10 The field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife. |
25:11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi [A well to the Living One Who sees me]. |
25:12 Now this is the history of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham. |
25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their births: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, |
25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, |
25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. |
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments (sheepfolds)--twelve princes according to their tribes. [Foretold in Gen. 17:20.] |
25:17 And Ishmael lived 137 years; then his spirit left him, and he died and was gathered to his kindred. |
25:18 And [Ishmael's sons] dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt in the direction of Assyria. [Ishmael] dwelt close [to the lands] of all his brethren. |
25:19 And this is the history of the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac. |
25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean. |
25:21 And Isaac prayed much to the Lord for his wife because she was unable to bear children; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife became pregnant. |
25:22 [Two] children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so [that the Lord has heard our prayer], why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord. |
25:23 The Lord said to her, [The founders of] two nations are in your womb, and the separation of two peoples has begun in your body; the one people shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger. |
25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. |
25:25 The first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they named him Esau [hairy]. |
25:26 Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand grasped Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob [supplanter]. Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them. |
25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a cunning {and} skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a plain {and} quiet man, dwelling in tents. |
25:28 And Isaac loved [and was partial to] Esau, because he ate of Esau's game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. |
25:29 Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger]. |
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, I beg of you, let me have some of that red lentil stew to eat, for I am faint {and} famished! That is why his name was called Edom [red]. |
25:31 Jacob answered, Then sell me today your birthright (the rights of a firstborn). |
25:32 Esau said, See here, I am at the point of death; what good can this birthright do me? |
25:33 Jacob said, Swear to me today [that you are selling it to me]; and he swore to [Jacob] and sold him his birthright. |
25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau scorned his birthright as beneath his notice. |