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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Abraham had taken another wife whose name was Keturah. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2She 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. Dedan's sons were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Midian's sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah's descendants. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6While he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to his concubines and sent them to the east country in order to keep them away from his son Isaac. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Abraham lived for 175 years, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8then passed away, dying at a ripe old age, having lived a full life, and joined his ancestors. |
| 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 that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite's son Ephron. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10This was the same field that Abraham had bought from the son of Heth, where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who continued to live near Beer-lahai-roi. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now this is what happened to Ishmael, whom Sarah's Egyptian servant Hagar bore for Abraham. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Here's a list of the names of Ishmael's sons, recorded by their names and descendants: Nebaioth was the firstborn, followed by 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 Ishmael's children, listed by their names according to their villages and their camps. There were a total of twelve tribal chiefs, according to their clans. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Ishmael lived for 137 years, then he took his last breath, died, and joined his ancestors. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur (that's near Egypt), all the way to Assyria, in defiance of all of his relatives. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19This is the account of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham fathered Isaac. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, and the LORD responded to him—his wife Rebekah became pregnant. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But when the infants kept on wrestling each other inside her womb, she asked herself, "Why is this happening?" So she asked the LORD for an explanation. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Two nations are in your womb," the LORD responded, "and two separate people will emerge. One people will be the stronger, and the older one will serve the younger." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Sure enough, when her due date arrived, she delivered twin sons. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The first son came out reddish—his entire body was covered with hair—so they named him Esau. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26After that, his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27As the boys were growing up, Esau became skilled at hunting and was a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was the quiet type who tended to stay indoors. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Isaac loved Esau, because he loved to hunt, while Rebekah loved Jacob. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau happened to come in from being outdoors, and he was feeling famished. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Esau told Jacob, "Let me gobble down some of this red stuff, since I'm starving." (That's how Esau got his nickname "Edom".) |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But Jacob responded, "Sell me your birthright. Do it now." |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"Look! I'm about to die," Esau replied. "What good is this birthright to me?" |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But Jacob insisted, "Swear it by an oath right now." So he swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Then Jacob gave Esau some of his food, along with some boiled stew. So Esau ate, drank, got up, and left, after having belittled his own birthright. |
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