Genesis 25

¹Abraham took another wife, whose name was Ketuʹrah. ²She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midʹian, Ishbak, and Shuah. ³Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshuʹrim, Letuʹshim, and Le-umʹmim. ⁴The sons of Midʹian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abiʹda, and Eldaʹah. All these were the children of Ketuʹrah. ⁵Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. ⁶But 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.

⁷These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, a hundred and seventy-five years. ⁸Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. ⁹Isaac and Ishʹmael his sons buried him in the cave of Mach-peʹlah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, 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. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-laʹhai-roi.

¹²These are the descendants of Ishʹmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham. ¹³These are the names of the sons of Ishʹmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaʹioth, the first-born of Ishʹmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, ¹⁴Mishma, Dumah, Massa, ¹⁵Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedʹemah. ¹⁶These are the sons of Ishʹmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes. ¹⁷(These are the years of the life of Ishʹmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kindred.) ¹⁸They dwelt from Havʹilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria; he settled over against all his people.

¹⁹These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, ²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuʹel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean. ²¹And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ²²The children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is thus, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. ²³And the Lord said to her,

“Two nations are in your womb,

and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided;

the one shall be stronger than the other,

the elder shall serve the younger.”

²⁴When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. ²⁵The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they called his name Esau. ²⁶Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand had taken hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. ²⁸Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

²⁹Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. ³⁰And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.) ³¹Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.” ³²Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” ³³Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.