Genesis 25

Chapter 25

Abraham’s Death

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

^2aShe bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

³Jokshan ¹became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.

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

^5aNow Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;

⁶but to the sons of ¹his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and ^asent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.

⁷These are ¹all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, ^aone hundred and seventy-five years.

⁸Abraham breathed his last and died ^ain a ¹ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was ^bgathered to his people.

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

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

¹¹It came about after the death of Abraham, that ^aGod blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac ¹lived by ^bBeer-lahai-roi.

Descendants of Ishmael

¹²Now these are the records of the generations of ^aIshmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham;

¹³and these are the names of ^athe sons of Ishmael, by their names, ¹in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

¹⁴and Mishma and Dumah and Massa,

¹⁵Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

¹⁶These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; ^atwelve princes according to their ¹tribes.

¹⁷These are the years of the life of Ishmael, ^aone hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was ^bgathered to his people.

¹⁸They ¹settled from ^aHavilah to ^bShur which is ²east of Egypt ³as one goes toward Assyria; ^che ⁴settled in defiance of all his ⁵relatives.

Isaac’s Sons

¹⁹Now these are the records of ^athe generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham ¹became the father of Isaac;

²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he took ^aRebekah, the ^bdaughter of Bethuel the ¹Aramean of Paddan-aram, the ^csister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

²¹Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and ^athe Lord ¹answered him and Rebekah his wife ^bconceived.

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

²³The Lord said to her,

“^aTwo nations are in your womb;

^bAnd two peoples will be separated from your body;

And one people shall be stronger than the other;

And ^cthe older shall serve the younger.”

²⁴When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

²⁵Now the first came forth red, ^aall over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

²⁶Afterward his brother came forth with ^ahis hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so ^bhis name was called ¹Jacob; and Isaac was ^csixty 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 ¹peaceful man, ^2aliving in tents.

²⁸Now Isaac loved Esau, because ¹he had ^aa taste for game, ^bbut Rebekah loved Jacob.

²⁹When Jacob had cooked ^astew, Esau came in from the field and he was ¹famished;

³⁰and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallow of ¹that red stuff there, for I am ²famished.” Therefore his name was called ³Edom.

³¹But Jacob said, “¹First sell me your ^abirthright.”

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

³³And Jacob said, “¹First swear to me”; so he swore to him, and ^asold his birthright to Jacob.

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