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¹ Forsothe Abraham weddide another wijf, Ceture bi name,² which childide to him Samram, and Jexan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboth, and Sue.³ Also Jexan gendride Saba and Dadan. Forsothe the sones of Dadan weren Asurym, and Lathusym, and Laomym.⁴ And sotheli of Madian was borun Efa, and Ofer, and Enoth, and Abida, and Heldaa; alle these weren the sones of Cethure.⁵ And Abraham yaf alle thingis whiche he hadde in possessioun to Isaac;⁶ sotheli he yaf yiftis to the sones of concubyns; and Abraham, while he lyuede yit, departide hem fro Ysaac, his sone, to the eest coost.⁷ Forsothe the daies of lijf of Abraham weren an hundrid and `fyue and seuenti yeer;⁸ and he failide, and diede in good eelde, and of greet age, and ful of daies, and he was gaderid to his puple.⁹ And Ysaac and Ismael, his sones, birieden him in the double denne, which is set in the feeld of Efron, sone of Seor Ethei,¹⁰ euene ayens Mambre, which denne he bouyte of the sones of Heth; and he was biried there, and Sare his wijf.

¹¹ And aftir the deeth of Abraham God blesside Isaac his sone, which dwellide bisidis the pit bi name of hym that lyueth and seeth.¹² These ben the generaciouns of Ismael, sone of Abraham, whom Agar Egipcian, seruauntesse of Sare, childide to Abraham;¹³ and these ben the names of the sones of Ismael, in her names and generaciouns. The firste gendride of Ismael was Nabaioth, aftirward Cedar, and Abdeel, and Mabsan,¹⁴ and Masma, and Duma, and Massa,¹⁵ and Adad, and Thema, and Ithur, and Nafir, and Cedma.¹⁶ These weren the sones of Ismael, and these weren names by castels and townes of hem, twelue princes of her lynagis.¹⁷ And the yeeris of lijf of Ismael weren maad an hundrid and seuene and thretti, and he failide, and diede, and was put to his puple.¹⁸ Forsothe he enhabitide fro Euila til to Sur, that biholdith Egipt, as me entrith in to Assiriens; he diede bifore alle his britheren.

¹⁹ Also these ben the generaciouns of Ysaac sone of Abraham. Abraham gendride Isaac,²⁰ and whanne Isaac was of fourti yeer, he weddide a wijf, Rebecca, douyter of Batuel, of Sirie of Mesopotanye, the sistir of Laban.²¹ And Isaac bisouyte the Lord for his wijf, for sche was bareyn; and the Lord herde him, and yaf conseiuyng to Rebecca.²² But the litle children weren hurtlid togidre in hir wombe; and sche seide, If it was so to comynge to me, what nede was it to conseyue? And sche yede and axide counsel of the Lord,²³ which answerde, and seide, Twei folkis ben in thi wombe, and twei puplis schulen be departid fro thi wombe, and a puple schal ouercome a puple, and the more schal serue the lesse.²⁴ Thanne the tyme of childberyng cam, and lo! twei children weren foundun in hir wombe.²⁵ He that yede out first was reed, and al rouy in the manere of a skyn; and his name was clepid Esau.²⁶ Anoon the tothir yede out, and helde with the hond the heele of the brother; and therfore he clepide him Jacob. Isaac was sixti yeer eeld, whanne the litle children weren borun.²⁷ And whanne thei weren woxun, Esau was maad a man kunnynge of huntyng, and a man erthe tilier; forsothe Jacob was a symple man, and dwellide in tabernaclis.²⁸ Isaac louyde Esau, for he eet of the huntyng of Esau; and Rebecca louyde Jacob.

²⁹ Sotheli Jacob sethide potage; and whanne Esau cam weri fro the feld,³⁰ he seide to Jacob, Yyue thou to me of this reed sething, for Y am ful weri; for which cause his name was clepid Edom.³¹ And Jacob seide to him, Sille to me the riyt of the first gendrid childe.³² He answerde, Lo! Y die, what schulen the firste gendrid thingis profite to me?³³ Jacob seide, therfor swere thou to me. Therfor Esau swoor, and selde the firste gendrid thingis.³⁴ And so whanne he hadde take breed and potage, Esau eet and drank, and yede forth, and chargide litil that he hadde seld the riyt of the firste gendrid child.