Genesis 25 — Legacy Standard Bible

The Death of Abraham

25Now Abraham took another wife, ¹whose name was Keturah. ²^aAnd she bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. ³Now Jokshan ¹was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. ⁴And the sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. ⁵^aAnd Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac; ⁶but to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and he ^asent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.

⁷These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, ^a175 years. ⁸And Abraham breathed his last and died ^ain a good old age, an old man and full of days; and he was ^bgathered to his people. ⁹Then his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in ^athe cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre, ¹⁰^athe field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife. ¹¹Now it happened after the death of Abraham, that ^aGod blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac ¹lived by ^bBeer-lahai-roi.

The Generations of Ishmael

¹²Now these are the generations of ^aIshmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant-woman, bore to Abraham; ¹³and these are the names of ^athe sons of Ishmael, by their names, ¹in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam ¹⁴and Mishma and Dumah and Massa, ¹⁵Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. ¹⁶These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; ^atwelve princes according to their ¹tribes. ¹⁷These are the years of the life of Ishmael, ^a137 years; and he breathed his last and died and was ^bgathered to his people. ¹⁸And they dwelt from ^aHavilah to ^bShur which is ¹east of Egypt ²as one goes toward Assyria; ^che ³settled in the face of all his brothers.

The Generations of Isaac

¹⁹Now these are ^athe generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham ¹became the father of Isaac; ²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he took ^aRebekah, the ^bdaughter of Bethuel the ¹Aramean of Paddan-aram, the ^csister of Laban the ²Aramean, to be his wife. ²¹And Isaac entreated Yahweh on behalf of his wife because she was barren; and ^aYahweh ¹was moved by his entreaty. So Rebekah his wife ^bconceived. ²²But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why then am I this way?” So she went to ^ainquire of Yahweh. ²³And Yahweh said to her, “^aTwo nations are in your womb;^bAnd two peoples will be separated from your body;And one people shall be stronger than the other;And ^cthe older shall serve the younger.”

²⁴And her days to give birth were fulfilled, and behold, there were twins in her womb. ²⁵And the first came forth red, ^aall over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau. ²⁶Afterward his brother came forth with ^ahis hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so ^bhis name was called ¹Jacob; and Isaac was ^csixty years old when she gave birth to them.

Esau Sells His Birthright

²⁷And the boys grew up; Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a ¹peaceful man, ²^,^aliving in tents. ²⁸Isaac loved Esau because ¹he had ^aan appetite for hunted game, ^bbut Rebekah loved Jacob.

²⁹And Jacob had cooked ^astew. And Esau came in from the field, and he was ¹famished. ³⁰Then Esau said to Jacob, “Please give me a swallow from the red stuff—¹this red stuff, for I am ²famished.” Therefore his name was called ³Edom. ³¹But Jacob said, “¹First sell me your ^abirthright.” ³²And Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?” ³³And Jacob said, “¹First swear to me”; so he swore to him and ^asold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴So Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank and rose and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.