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| 25:1 |
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Ketu'rah.
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| 25:2 |
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Mid'ian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
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| 25:3 |
Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshu'rim, Letu'shim, and Le-um'mim.
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| 25:4 |
The sons of Mid'ian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abi'da, and Elda'ah. All these were the children of Ketu'rah.
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| 25:5 |
Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
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| 25:6 |
But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
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| 25:7 |
These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, a hundred and seventy-five years.
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| 25:8 |
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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| 25:9 |
Isaac and Ish'mael his sons buried him in the cave of Mach-pe'lah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,
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| 25:10 |
the field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
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| 25:11 |
After the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-la'hai-roi.
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| 25:12 |
These are the descendants of Ish'mael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham.
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| 25:13 |
These are the names of the sons of Ish'mael, named in the order of their birth: Neba'ioth, the first-born of Ish'mael;and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
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| 25:14 |
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
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| 25:15 |
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Ked'emah.
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| 25:16 |
These are the sons of Ish'mael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.
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| 25:17 |
(These are the years of the life of Ish'mael, a hundred and thirty-seven years;he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kindred.)
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| 25:18 |
They dwelt from Hav'ilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria;he settled over against all his people.
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| 25:19 |
These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac,
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| 25:20 |
and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethu'el the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
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| 25:21 |
And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren;and the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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| 25:22 |
The children struggled together within her;and she said, 'If it is thus, why do I live?' So she went to inquire of the LORD.
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| 25:23 |
And the LORD said to her, 'Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided;the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger.'
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| 25:24 |
When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
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| 25:25 |
The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle;so they called his name Esau.
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| 25:26 |
Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand had taken hold of Esau's heel;so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
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| 25:27 |
When the boys grew up, Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
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| 25:28 |
Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his game;but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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| 25:29 |
Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
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| 25:30 |
And Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!' (Therefore his name was called Edom.)
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| 25:31 |
Jacob said, 'First sell me your birthright.'
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| 25:32 |
Esau said, 'I am about to die;of what use is a birthright to me?'
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| 25:33 |
Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
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| 25:34 |
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
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