CHAPTER 25
Jokshan
was the father of
Sheba
and Dedan.
And the sons
of Dedan
were
the Asshurites,
the Letushites,
and the Leummites.
The sons
of Midian
were Ephah,
Epher,
Hanoch,
Abida,
and Eldaah.
All
these
were descendants
of Keturah.
But 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.
And at a ripe
old age
he breathed his last
and died,
old
and contented,
and was gathered
to
his people.
His sons
Isaac
and Ishmael
buried
him in
the cave
of Machpelah
near
Mamre,
in
the field
of Ephron
son
of Zohar
the Hittite.
This was the field
that
Abraham
had bought
from the Hittites.
Abraham
was buried
there
with his wife
Sarah.
This
is the account
of Abraham’s
son
Ishmael,
whom
Hagar
the Egyptian,
Sarah’s
maidservant,
bore
to Abraham.
These
are the names
of the sons
of Ishmael
in the order of their birth:
Nebaioth
the firstborn
of Ishmael,
then Kedar,
Adbeel,
Mibsam,
These
were
the sons
of Ishmael,
and these
were their names
by their villages
and encampments—
twelve
princes
of their tribes.
Ishmael
lived
a total of
137
years.
Then he breathed his last
and died,
and was gathered
to
his people.
Ishmael’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.
and 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.
Later, 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.
But 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,
and 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.”
After
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.
When the boys
grew up,
Esau
became
a skillful
hunter,
a man
of the field,
but Jacob
was a quiet
man
who stayed
at home.
He
said
to
Jacob,
“Let me eat
some of
that
red
stew,
for
I am
famished.”
(That is why
he was also called
Edom.)
Then Jacob
gave
some bread
and lentil
stew
to Esau;
he ate
and drank,
and then got up
and went away.
Thus Esau
despised
his birthright.