• Abraham’s Death

  • 1 Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
  • 2 She bore to him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
  • 3 Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
  • 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were the sons of Keturah.
  • 5 Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;
  • 6 but 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.
  • 7 These are all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, 175 years.
  • 8 Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.
  • 9 Then 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,
  • 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.
  • 11 It came about after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

  • Descendants of Ishmael

  • 12 Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave woman, bore to Abraham;
  • 13 and 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,
  • 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
  • 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
  • 16 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their tribes.
  • 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
  • 18 They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt going toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.

  • Isaac’s Sons

  • 19 Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac;
  • 20 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.
  • 21 Isaac 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.
  • 22 But 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.
  • 23 And 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.”
  • 24 When her days leading to the delivery were at an end, behold, there were twins in her womb.
  • 25 Now the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
  • 26 Afterward 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.
  • 27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a civilized man, living in tents.
  • 28 Now Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
  • 29 When Jacob had cooked a stew one day, Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted;
  • 30 and 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.
  • 31 But Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”
  • 32 Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?”
  • 33 And Jacob said, “First swear to me”; so he swore an oath to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
  • 34 Then 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.