Genesis 25

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Gen 25:1 And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
Gen 25:2 And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Gen 25:3 And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim.
Gen 25:4 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
Gen 25:5 And Abraham gave all that was his to Isaac.
Gen 25:6 And to the sons of the concubines who were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away eastward, from his son Isaac, while still alive to an eastern land.
Gen 25:7 And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred seventy five years.
Gen 25:8 And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and was gathered to his people.
Gen 25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite which is before Mamre,
Gen 25:10 the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there.
Gen 25:11 And it happened after the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder.
Gen 25:12 And these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, the slave-girl of Sarah, bore to Abraham.
Gen 25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Gen 25:14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Gen 25:15 Hadad, and Tema, and Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Gen 25:16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these their names in their settlements and in their camps, twelve chiefs according to their nations.
Gen 25:17 And these were the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred thirty seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people.
Gen 25:18 And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you come toward Assyria; he settled facing all his brothers.
Gen 25:19 And these were the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac.
Gen 25:20 And Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife.
Gen 25:21 And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife for she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated for him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Gen 25:22 And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If this is right, why am I this way? And she went to ask Jehovah.
Gen 25:23 And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb; even two peoples shall break from your body. And one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Gen 25:24 And her days were fulfilled to bear. And behold! Twins were in her womb.
Gen 25:25 And the first came out, all of him red like a hairy robe; and they called his name Esau.
Gen 25:26 And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them.
Gen 25:27 And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.
Gen 25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. And Rebekah loved Jacob.
Gen 25:29 And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint.
Gen 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Please let me eat of the red, this red soup, for I am faint. On account of this his name is called Edom.
Gen 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today.
Gen 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and what good is this, a birthright to me?
Gen 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Gen 25:34 And Jacob gave bread and soup of lentils to Esau. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. And Esau despised the birthright.

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