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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. Dedan's sons were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.
25:4  Midian's sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah's descendants.
25:5  Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.
25:6  While he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to his concubines and sent them to the east country in order to keep them away from his son Isaac.
25:7  Abraham lived for 175 years,
25:8  then passed away, dying at a ripe old age, having lived a full life, and joined his ancestors.
25:9  His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite's son Ephron.
25:10  This was the same field that Abraham had bought from the son of Heth, where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried.
25:11  After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who continued to live near Beer-lahai-roi.
25:12  Now this is what happened to Ishmael, whom Sarah's Egyptian servant Hagar bore for Abraham.
25:13  Here's a list of the names of Ishmael's sons, recorded by their names and descendants: Nebaioth was the firstborn, followed by Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
25:14  Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
25:15  Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
25:16  These were Ishmael's children, listed by their names according to their villages and their camps. There were a total of twelve tribal chiefs, according to their clans.
25:17  Ishmael lived for 137 years, then he took his last breath, died, and joined his ancestors.
25:18  His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur (that's near Egypt), all the way to Assyria, in defiance of all of his relatives.
25:19  This is the account of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham fathered Isaac.
25:20  Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
25:21  Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, and the LORD responded to him—his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
25:22  But when the infants kept on wrestling each other inside her womb, she asked herself, "Why is this happening?" So she asked the LORD for an explanation.
25:23  "Two nations are in your womb," the LORD responded, "and two separate people will emerge. One people will be the stronger, and the older one will serve the younger."
25:24  Sure enough, when her due date arrived, she delivered twin sons.
25:25  The first son came out reddish—his entire body was covered with hair—so they named him Esau.
25:26  After that, his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.
25:27  As the boys were growing up, Esau became skilled at hunting and was a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was the quiet type who tended to stay indoors.
25:28  Isaac loved Esau, because he loved to hunt, while Rebekah loved Jacob.
25:29  One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau happened to come in from being outdoors, and he was feeling famished.
25:30  Esau told Jacob, "Let me gobble down some of this red stuff, since I'm starving." (That's how Esau got his nickname "Edom".)
25:31  But Jacob responded, "Sell me your birthright. Do it now."
25:32  "Look! I'm about to die," Esau replied. "What good is this birthright to me?"
25:33  But Jacob insisted, "Swear it by an oath right now." So he swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
25:34  Then Jacob gave Esau some of his food, along with some boiled stew. So Esau ate, drank, got up, and left, after having belittled his own birthright.