1Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
2She gave him sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
3Jokshan fathered Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim;
4and the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
5Abraham had left all that he had to Isaac.
6But to the sons of his concubines, Abraham had given gifts while he was still alive, and had sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.
7Abraham had lived for one hundred and seventy-five years,
8when he breathed his last, dying in a good old age, old and satisfied with living, and was gathered to his forefathers.
9Then Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre,
10the field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.
11After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son, who settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
12This is a list of descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid-servant gave to Abraham.
13These then are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named according to their order of birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
14Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
15Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their peoples.
17Ishmael lived for one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
18They settled from Havilah to Shur that is east of Egypt, as far as Assyria; he settled down alongside all his people.
19These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham fathered Isaac.
20Isaac was forty years old, when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean. Esau and Jacob
21Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she had no children; and the Lord heard his prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.
22The children struggled against each other in her womb, and she said, ‘Why is this happening to me? What does it mean?’ She went to ask the Lord ,
23who said to her, ‘Two nations are in your womb, two peoples divided from birth, One will be stronger than the other, the elder will serve the younger.’
24When the time came for her to give birth, she became the mother of twin boys.
25The first was born red, his whole body covered with hair like a fur coat, so they named him Esau.
26Afterwards his brother came holding Esau’s heel with his hand; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
27As they grew up, Esau became a skilful hunter, a man who lived out in the fields; but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed about the tents.
28Isaac loved Esau, for he had a taste for venison; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29Once when Jacob was preparing a stew, Esau came in from the fields, and he was very hungry;
30so he said to Jacob, ‘Let me swallow some of that red stew, for I am very hungry.’ (This is why he was called Edom.)
31But Jacob said, ‘Sell me first of all your right as the eldest.’
32Esau replied, ‘See, I am nearly dead now! So of what use is this birthright to me?’
33Jacob said, ‘First solemnly promise to give it to me.’ So Esau solemnly promised and sold his birthright to Jacob.
34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and stewed lentils, and when he had finished eating and drinking, he got up and went away. In this way Esau gave away his birthright.