Genesis 25:1-28 ▼

1 And Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

2 And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

3 And Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurites, and Letushites, and Leummites.

4 And the sons of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah.

5 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

6 And to the sons of the concubines unto Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and he sent them away from Isaac his son while he was still living eastward, to the land of the east.

7 And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived: A hundred years and seventy years and five years.

8 And Abraham expired, and he died at a good old age, old and satisfied, and he was gathered to his people.

9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite which is before Mamre—

10 the field that Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt near Beer-lahai-roi.

12 And these are the generations of Ishmael son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptianess, maidservant of Sarah, bore to Abraham.

13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: Nebajoth the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

15 Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names, by their towns and their settlements—two and ten princes according to their tribes.

17 And these were the years of the life of Ishmael: A hundred years and thirty years and seven years. And he expired and died, and he was gathered to his people.

18 And they dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is before Egypt, as you go toward Asshur; Against the faces of all his brothers has he fallen.

19 And these are the generations of Isaac son of Abraham: Abraham begat Isaac,

20 and Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him as wife.

21 And Isaac entreated YHWH for his wife, because she was barren. And YHWH was entreated for him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

22 And the children struggled together within her, and she said, “If so, why this I?” And she went to inquire of YHWH.

23 And YHWH said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your bowels shall be separated; and one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

24 And her days to give birth were fulfilled, and indeed there were twins in her womb.

25 And the first came out ruddy all over, hairy like a cloak, and they called his name Esau.

26 And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was grasping at the heel of Esau, and he called his name Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them.

27 And the boys grew, and Esau was a skillful man, a hunter and a man of the field; Jacob was a blameless man, dwelling in tents.

28 And Isaac loved Esau because of the game in his mouth, and Rebekah loved Jacob.