25:1 Abraham took another wife.
Her name was Keturah.
25:2 She brought forth Zimran and Jokshan
25:3 Jokshan brought forth
The sons of Dedan were Ashurim
Letushim and Leummim.
25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah
Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah.
All these were family of Keturah.
25:5 Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
25:6 But while he lived
he also gave gifts
to the sons of his mistresses
and sent them away
from his son Isaac
to the eastern region.
25:7 Abraham lived for 175 years.
25:8 Abraham’s spirit passed away
content and advanced in years
and was taken up to his people.
25:9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him
in the
in the Mamre field of Ephron
son of Zohar and follower of Heth.
25:10 This was the same field
Abraham bought from the Hittites.
It was there Abraham was buried
with his wife Sarah.
25:11 Once Abraham passed away
God blessed his son Isaac
who lived near the spring of Lahairoi.
25:12 This is the account of the ancestry
of Ishmael the son of Abraham
born to Sarah's Egyptian housemaid Hagar.
25:13 These are the names of the sons
of Ishmael in order of their births:
Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael
Kedar, Adbeel and Mibsam
25:14 Mishma, Dumah and
25:15 Hadad, Tema and Jetur
Naphish and Kedemah.
25:16 These were the sons of Ishmael
and the names of the twelve tribal chiefs
according to their villages,
their camps and their followers.
25:17 Ishmael lived for 137 years.
His spirit passed away
and taken up to his people.
25:18 Living from Havilah to Shur
near
they lived to the East
of the tribes related to them.
25:19 These are the generations
of Abraham's son Isaac:
Abraham brought forth Isaac.
25:20 Isaac was forty years old
he married Rebekah
daughter of Bethuel
the Aramean from Paddan
and sister of Laban the Aramean.
25:21 Isaac prayed to Yahweh
for his wife because she was childless.
Yahweh answered his prayer
and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
25:22 The babies within her
struggled together
so she asked:
Why is this happening to me?
Thus she prayed to Yahweh.
25:23 Yahweh spoke to her:
Two persons are in your womb
and two people will come from your belly.
One person will be stronger than the other
and the older one will serve the younger.
25:24 When the time arrived
for her to give birth
there were twin boys in her womb.
25:25 The first come out red
his entire body like a hairy garment.
They named him Esau (hairy).
25:26 His brother came out after
with his hand clutching Esau's heel.
Thus he was named Jacob.
Isaac was sixty years old
when Rebekah gave birth to them.
25:27 The boys grew.
Esau became a skillful hunter
a man of the open country.
Jacob was a wholesome man
who lived among the tents.
25:28 Isaac favored Esau
while Rebekah favored Jacob.
25:29 One time Jacob made some soup.
Esau came in hungry
from the wilderness.
25:30 He spoke to Jacob:
Can you please feed me
with the red soup as I am hungry.
This is why he was also called
25:31 Jacob replied:
First give me your birthright.
25:32 Esau replied:
Surely I am about to die.
What good is birthright to me?
25:33 So Jacob said:
Promise this to me first.
So he made a promise to him
to give his birthright to Jacob.
25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread
along with some lentil soup.
He ate this and had something to drink
and then got up and left.
After this Esau despised his birthright.
