1 A braham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

2 A nd she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

3 J okshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

4 T he sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

5 A nd Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

6 B ut to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them to the east country, away from Isaac his son.

7 T he days of Abraham’s life were 175 years.

8 T hen Abraham’s spirit was released, and he died at a good (ample, full) old age, an old man, satisfied and satiated, and was gathered to his people.

9 A nd his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre,

10 T he field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

11 A fter the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi.

12 N ow this is the history of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham.

13 T hese are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their births: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

14 M ishma, Dumah, Massa,

15 H adad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

16 T hese are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments (sheepfolds)—twelve princes according to their tribes.

17 A nd Ishmael lived 137 years; then his spirit left him, and he died and was gathered to his kindred.

18 A nd dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt in the direction of Assyria. dwelt close of all his brethren.

19 A nd this is the history of the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac.

20 I saac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

21 A nd Isaac prayed much to the Lord for his wife because she was unable to bear children; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife became pregnant.

22 c hildren struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so, why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord.

23 T he Lord said to her, two nations are in your womb, and the separation of two peoples has begun in your body; the one people shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

24 W hen her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25 T he first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they named him Esau.

26 A fterward his brother came forth, and his hand grasped Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

27 W hen the boys grew up, Esau was a cunning and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a plain and quiet man, dwelling in tents.

28 A nd Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of Esau’s game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29 J acob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint.

30 A nd Esau said to Jacob, I beg of you, let me have some of that red lentil stew to eat, for I am faint and famished! That is why his name was called Edom.

31 J acob answered, Then sell me today your birthright (the rights of a firstborn).

32 E sau said, See here, I am at the point of death; what good can this birthright do me?

33 J acob said, Swear to me today; and he swore to and sold him his birthright.

34 T hen Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau scorned his birthright as beneath his notice.