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| | Gen 25:1 | Now Abraham married again. Keturah was his new wife,
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| | Gen 25:2 | and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
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| | Gen 25:3 | Jokshan's two sons were Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's descendants were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.
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| | Gen 25:4 | Midian's sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. These were all descendants of Abraham through Keturah.
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| | Gen 25:5 | Abraham left everything he owned to his son Isaac.
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| | Gen 25:6 | But before he died, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from Isaac.
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| | Gen 25:7 | Abraham lived for 175 years,
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| | Gen 25:8 | and he died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death.
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| | Gen 25:9 | His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
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| | Gen 25:10 | This was the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites, where he had buried his wife Sarah.
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| | Gen 25:11 | After Abraham's death, God poured out rich blessings on Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahairoi in the Negev.
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| | Gen 25:12 | This is the history of the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham through Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant.
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| | Gen 25:13 | Here is a list, by their names and clans, of Ishmael's descendants: The oldest was Nebaioth, followed by Kedar, Abdeel, Mibsam,
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| | Gen 25:14 | Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
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| | Gen 25:15 | Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
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| | Gen 25:16 | These twelve sons of Ishmael became the founders of twelve tribes that bore their names, listed according to the places they settled and camped.
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| | Gen 25:17 | Ishmael finally died at the age of 137 and joined his ancestors in death.
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| | Gen 25:18 | Ishmael's descendants were scattered across the country from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt in the direction of Asshur. The clans descended from Ishmael camped close to one another.
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| | Gen 25:19 | This is the history of the family of Isaac, the son of Abraham.
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| | Gen 25:20 | When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban.
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| | Gen 25:21 | Isaac pleaded with the LORD to give Rebekah a child because she was childless. So the LORD answered Isaac's prayer, and his wife became pregnant with twins.
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| | Gen 25:22 | But the two children struggled with each other in her womb. So she went to ask the LORD about it. "Why is this happening to me?" she asked.
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| | Gen 25:23 | And the LORD told her, "The sons in your womb will become two rival nations. One nation will be stronger than the other; the descendants of your older son will serve the descendants of your younger son."
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| | Gen 25:24 | And when the time came, the twins were born.
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| | Gen 25:25 | The first was very red at birth. He was covered with so much hair that one would think he was wearing a piece of clothing. So they called him Esau.
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| | Gen 25:26 | Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So they called him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
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| | Gen 25:27 | As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open fields, while Jacob was the kind of person who liked to stay at home.
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| | Gen 25:28 | Isaac loved Esau in particular because of the wild game he brought home, but Rebekah favored Jacob.
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| | Gen 25:29 | One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home exhausted and hungry from a hunt.
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| | Gen 25:30 | Esau said to Jacob, "I'm starved! Give me some of that red stew you've made." (This was how Esau got his other name, Edom--"Red.")
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| | Gen 25:31 | Jacob replied, "All right, but trade me your birthright for it."
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| | Gen 25:32 | "Look, I'm dying of starvation!" said Esau. "What good is my birthright to me now?"
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| | Gen 25:33 | So Jacob insisted, "Well then, swear to me right now that it is mine." So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the firstborn to his younger brother.
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| | Gen 25:34 | Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate and drank and went on about his business, indifferent to the fact that he had given up his birthright.
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