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¹ And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah.² And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.³ And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim.⁴ And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.⁵ And Abraham gave all that was his to Isaac.⁶ And to the sons of the concubines who were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away eastward, from his son Isaac, while still alive to an eastern land.⁷ And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred seventy five years.⁸ And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and was gathered to his people.⁹ And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite which is before Mamre,¹⁰ the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there.

¹¹ And it happened after the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder.¹² And these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, the slave-girl of Sarah, bore to Abraham.¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,¹⁴ and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, and Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.¹⁶ These were the sons of Ishmael, and these their names in their settlements and in their camps, twelve chiefs according to their nations.¹⁷ And these were the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred thirty seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people.¹⁸ And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you come toward Assyria; he settled facing all his brothers.

¹⁹ And these were the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac.²⁰ And Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife.²¹ And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife for she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated for him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.²² And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If this is right, why am I this way? And she went to ask Jehovah.²³ And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb; even two peoples shall break from your body. And one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.²⁴ And her days were fulfilled to bear. And behold! Twins were in her womb.²⁵ And the first came out, all of him red like a hairy robe; and they called his name Esau.²⁶ And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them.²⁷ And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

²⁹ And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint.³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Please let me eat of the red, this red soup , for I am faint. On account of this his name is called Edom.³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today.³² And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and what good is this, a birthright to me?³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.³⁴ And Jacob gave bread and soup of lentils to Esau. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. And Esau despised the birthright.