25:1 Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. 25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 25:3 Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 25:5 Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. 25:6 But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country. 25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years. 25:8 Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. 25:9 Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, 25:10 the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife. 25:11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi. 25:12 These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham. 25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes. 25:17 (These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.) 25:18 They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen. 25:19 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac, 25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 25:21 And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 25:22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me" So she went to inquire of the LORD. 25:23 And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger." 25:24 When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25:25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. 25:26 Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. 25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. 25:29 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.) 25:31 Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright now." 25:32 Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me" 25:33 Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.