(1 Chronicles 1:32–33)
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And Abraham adds and takes a wife, and her name [is] Keturah;
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and she bears to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
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And Jokshan has begotten Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim;
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and the sons of Midian [are] Ephah, and Epher, and Enoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah: all these [are] sons of Keturah.
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And Abraham gives all that he has to Isaac;
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and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham has, Abraham has given gifts, and sends them away from his son Isaac (in his being yet alive) eastward, to the east country.
The Death of Abraham
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And these [are] the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years;
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and Abraham expires, and dies in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered to his people.
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And his sons Isaac and Ishmael bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre—
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the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth—there Abraham has been buried, and his wife Sarah.
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And it comes to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesses his son Isaac; and Isaac dwells by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder.
The Descendants of Ishmael
(1 Chronicles 1:28–31)
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And these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, has borne to Abraham;
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and these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their births: firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
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and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
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Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
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these are sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their villages, and by their towers; twelve princes according to their peoples.
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And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expires, and dies, and is gathered to his people;
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and they dwell from Havilah to Shur, which [is] before Egypt, in [your] going toward Asshur; in the presence of all his brothers has he fallen.
Jacob and Esau
(Malachi 1:1–5; Romans 9:6–29)
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And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham has begotten Isaac;
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and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife.
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And Isaac makes plea to YHWH before his wife, for she [is] barren: and YHWH accepts his plea, and his wife Rebekah conceives,
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and the children struggle together within her, and she says, “If [it is] right—why [am] I thus?” And she goes to seek YHWH.
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And YHWH says to her, “Two nations [are] in your womb, and two peoples from your bowels are parted; and the [one] people is stronger than the [other] people; and the older serves the younger.”
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And her days to bear are fulfilled, and behold, twins [are] in her womb;
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and the first comes out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;
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and afterward his brother has come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau’s heel, and one calls his name Jacob; and Isaac [is] a son of sixty years in her bearing them.
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And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted [with] hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob [is] a plain man, inhabiting tents;
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and Isaac loves Esau, for [his] game [is] in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.
Esau Sells His Birthright
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And Jacob boils stew, and Esau comes in from the field, and he [is] weary;
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and Esau says to Jacob, “Please let me eat some of this red-red thing, for I [am] weary”; therefore [one] has called his name Edom;
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and Jacob says, “Sell your birthright to me today.”
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And Esau says, “Behold, I am going to die, and what is this to me—a birthright?”
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And Jacob says, “Swear to me today”: and he swears to him, and sells his birthright to Jacob;
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and Jacob has given bread and stew of lentils to Esau, and he eats, and drinks, and rises, and goes; and Esau despises the birthright.
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