# Genesis 25 đź“–
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## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### The Death of Abraham
[[#Verse 01.]] Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah.Â
[[#Verse 02.]]Â She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.Â
[[#Verse 03.]] Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.Â
[[#Verse 04.]] The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
[[#Verse 05.]]Â Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.
[[#Verse 06.]] But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.
[[#Verse 07.]] Abraham lived a total of 175 years.Â
[[#Verse 08.]] Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.Â
[[#Verse 09.]]Â His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hittite.Â
[[#Verse 10.]] This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.Â
[[#Verse 11.]] After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
### The Sons of Ishmael
[[#Verse 12.]] This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
[[#Verse 13.]] These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names according to their records: Nebaioth (Ishmael’s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,Â
[[#Verse 14.]]Â Mishma, Dumah, Massa,Â
[[#Verse 15.]]Â Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.Â
[[#Verse 16.]] These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps—twelve princes according to their clans.
[[#Verse 17.]] Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. He breathed his last and died; then he joined his ancestors.Â
[[#Verse 18.]] His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.
### Jacob and Esau
[[#Verse 19.]] This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
[[#Verse 20.]] When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
[[#Verse 21.]] Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.Â
[[#Verse 22.]] But the children struggled inside her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the Lord,
[[#Verse 23.]] and the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
[[#Verse 24.]] When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.Â
[[#Verse 25.]] The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.Â
[[#Verse 26.]] When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
[[#Verse 27.]] When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.Â
[[#Verse 28.]] Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
[[#Verse 29.]] Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.Â
[[#Verse 30.]] So Esau said to Jacob, “Feed me some of the red stuff—yes, this red stuff—because I’m starving!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
[[#Verse 31.]] But Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
[[#Verse 32.]] “Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”Â
[[#Verse 33.]] But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
[[#Verse 34.]] Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.
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