Genesis 25 · Clearspring

Abraham and Keturah

¹Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,+ ²and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.+ ³Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.+ ⁴The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.+ ⁵Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.+ ⁶But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.+

The Death of Abraham

⁷Abraham lived a total of 175 years.+ ⁸And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.+ ⁹His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.+ ¹⁰This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.+ ¹¹After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.+

The Descendants of Ishmael

1 Chronicles 1:28–31

¹²This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.+ ¹³These are the names of the sons of Ishmael in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,+ ¹⁴Mishma, Dumah, Massa,+ ¹⁵Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.+ ¹⁶These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments — twelve princes of their tribes.+ ¹⁷Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.+ ¹⁸Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.+

Jacob and Esau

Malachi 1:1–5; Romans 9:6–29

¹⁹This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,+ ²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.+ ²¹Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.+ ²²But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,+ ²³and He declared 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.”+ ²⁴When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.+ ²⁵The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.+ ²⁶After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.+ ²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.+ ²⁸Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.+

Esau Sells His Birthright

²⁹One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.+ ³⁰He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)+ ³¹“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.+ ³²“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”+ ³³“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.+ ³⁴Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.+

Abraham and Keturah

The Death of Abraham

The Descendants of Ishmael

Jacob and Esau

Esau Sells His Birthright

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