25:1 Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.
25:3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites.
25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
25:5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
25:6 But 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.
25:7 Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.
25:8 Then 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.
25:9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,
25:10 the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites*. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. / *Or the descendants of Heth
25:11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
25:12 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.
25:16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.
25:17 Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.
25:18 His 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. / *Or lived to the east of
25:19 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram* and sister of Laban the Aramean. / *That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
25:21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
25:22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
25:23 The 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.”
25:24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
25:25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau*. / *Esau may mean hairy.
25:26 After 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. / *Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he deceives.
25:27 The 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.
25:28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
25:29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
25:30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom*.) / *Edom means red.
25:31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
25:32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
25:33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.