Berean Standard Bible
- 1 Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
- 2 and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
- 3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.
- 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
- 5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
- 6 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.
- 7 Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
- 8 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- 9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
- 10 This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
- 11 After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
- 12 This is the account of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maidservant, bore to Abraham.
- 13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
- 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
- 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
- 16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments-twelve princes of their tribes.
- 17 Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
- 18 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.
- 19 This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
- 20 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.
- 21 Later, Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And Yahweh heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
- 22 But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So Rebekah went to inquire of Yahweh,
- 23 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."
- 24 When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.
- 25 The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
- 26 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.
- 27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
- 28 Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- 29 One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
- 30 He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished." (That is why he was also called Edom.)
- 31 "First sell me your birthright," Jacob replied.
- 32 "Look," said Esau, "I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?"
- 33 "Swear to me first," Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
- 34 Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
