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¹ And Abraham took another wife and her name, was Keturah;² and she bare to him Zimran, and Yokshan, and Medan, and Midian, - and Ishbak, and Shuah.³ And, Yokshan, begat 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 he had to Isaac;⁶ but, to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, - and then sent them away from Isaac his son while he himself yet lived, eastward unto the land of the east.⁷ Now, these, are the days of the years of the life of Abraham which he lived - a hundred and seventy-five years.⁸ So Abraham breathed his last, and died in a fine old age, old and satisfied, - and was gathered unto his people,⁹ And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him, in the cave of Machpelah, - in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is over against Mamre;¹⁰ the field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth, - there, was buried Abraham, with Sarah his wife.

¹¹ And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son, - and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.¹² Now, these, are the generations of Ishmael son of Abraham, - whom hagar the Egyptian woman the handmaid of Sarah bare to Abraham;¹³ and these, are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names after their generations, - the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam;¹⁴ and Mishma and Dumah, and Massa;¹⁵ Ha-dad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:¹⁶ these, same, are the sons of Ishmael and these, their names, by their villages and by their encampments, - twelve princes, after their tribes.¹⁷ And these, are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years, - and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered unto his people.¹⁸ And they stretched their habitations from Havilah as far as to Shur, which is over against Egypt, as thou goest in towards Assyria, - over against all his brethren, he settled down.

¹⁹ And, these, are the generations of Isaac, son of Abraham, - Abraham, begat Isaac;²⁰ and it came to pass that, Isaac, was forty years old, when he took Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, of the Plain of Syria, - sister of Laban the Syrian. to himself to wife.²¹ So then Isaac made entreaty unto Yahweh in behalf of his wife, for she was, barren, - and Yahweh suffered himself to be entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.²² And the sons within her struggled together, so she said - If so, wherefore now am, I, thus ? And she went to seek Yahweh.²³ And Yahweh said to her. Two nations, are in thy womb, And two races, from thy body, shall be parted, - And, one race, shall be stronger, than the other race, And the elder, shall serve the younger.²⁴ Then were fulfilled her days to bring forth, - and lo! twins in her womb.²⁵ And the first came forth red, all over, as a mantle of hair, - so they called his name, Esau,²⁶ And, after that, came forth his brother with his hand fast hold of the heel of Esau, so they called his name Jacob - Now, Isaac, was sixty years old when she bare them,²⁷ And when the youths grew up, it came to pass that Esau was a man skilled in game a man of the field, - but, Jacob, was a ready man, dwelling in tents.²⁸ And, Isaac, loved, Esau, because of the game he put in his mouth, - but, Rebekah, was a lover of Jacob!.

²⁹ And Jacob had boiled pottage, - when Esau came in from the field, he, being famished.³⁰ So Esau said unto Jacob. Do let me devour some of the red - this red, for, famished, I am. For this cause, was his name called Edom.³¹ And Jacob said, - Come sell, just now, thy birthright unto me.³² And Esau said, Here am I, on the point of dying, - wherefore, then, should I, have, a birthright?³³ And Jacob said, Come swear to me just now! And he sware to him, - and sold his birthright to Jacob.³⁴ And Jacob, having given to Esau bread and a dish of lentils, he did eat and drink and rose up, and went his way, - thus Esau despised his birthright!