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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; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, 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 living, he 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 hundred and seventy-five years. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he 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] | 10the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12This is the account of the family line of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Sarah's slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, 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 are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19This is the account of the family line 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 daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The LORD said 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 the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom.) |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright." |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?" |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright. |
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