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Genesis 25

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Genesis 25 . 1

1 Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah, | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 2

2 and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 3

3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 4

4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 5

5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 6

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. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 7

7 Abraham lived a total of 175 years. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 8

8 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people. | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 9

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. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 10

10 This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 11

11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 12

12 This is the account of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maidservant, bore to Abraham. | IP | C | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 13

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, | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 14

14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 15

15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 16

16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes. | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 17

17 Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people. | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 18

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. | IP | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 19

19 This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, | C | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 20

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. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 21

21 Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. | TOSK | TT |

Genesis 25 . 22

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 the LORD, | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ |

Genesis 25 . 23

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." | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ |

Genesis 25 . 24

24 When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 25

25 The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 26

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. | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² |

Genesis 25 . 27

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. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 28

28 Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob. | TOSK |

Genesis 25 . 29

29 One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished. | TOSK | TT |

Genesis 25 . 30

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.) | TOSK | TT |

Genesis 25 . 31

31 "First sell me your birthright," Jacob replied. | TOSK | TT |

Genesis 25 . 32

32 "Look," said Esau, "I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?" | TOSK | TT |

Genesis 25 . 33

33 "Swear to me first," Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright. | TOSK | TT |

Genesis 25 . 34

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. | TOSK | TT |