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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Abraham lived a total of 175 years. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13These are the names of the sons of Ishmael in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Mishma, Dumah, Massa, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.” |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.) |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?” |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright. |
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