Genesis 25:1-25

Abraham’s Other Wife and Sons

1.) Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,
2.) and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
3.) Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s sons were the Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
4.) And Midian’s sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah.
5.) Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.
6.) And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

Abraham’s Death

7.) This is the length of Abraham’s life: 175 years.
8.) He took his last breath and died at a ripe old age, old and contented, and he was gathered to his people.
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.
10.) This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
11.) After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

Ishmael’s Family Records

12.) These are the family records of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.
13.) These are the names of Ishmael’s sons; their names according to the family records are: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
14.) Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
15.) Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16.) These are Ishmael’s sons, and these are their names by their villages and encampments: 12 leaders of their clans.
17.) This is the length of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.
18.) And they settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt as you go toward Asshur. He lived in opposition to all his brothers.




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Genesis 24
A Wife for Isaac

1.) Abraham was now old, getting on in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.
2.) Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
3.) and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,
4.) but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

5.) The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from?”

6.) Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.
7.) The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’—He will send His angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.
8.) If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”
9.) So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

10.) The servant took 10 of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand. Then he set out for Nahor’s town Aram-naharaim.
11.) He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.

12.) “Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
13.) I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.
14.) Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

15.) Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah—daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—coming with a jug on her shoulder.
16.) Now the girl was very beautiful, a young woman who had not known a man intimately. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.
17.) Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

Genesis 23
Sarah’s Burial

1.) Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.
2.) Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

3.) Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites:
4.) “I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”]

5.) The Hittites replied to Abraham,
6.) “Listen to us, lord. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place. None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”

7.) Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hittites, the people of the land.
8.) He said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
9.) to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as a burial place.”

10.) Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. So in the presence of all the Hittites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham:
11.) “No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

12.) Abraham bowed down to the people of the land
13.) and said to Ephron in the presence of the people of the land, “Please listen to me. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

14.) Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,
15.) “My lord, listen to me. Land worth 400 shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
16.) Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the presence of the Hittites: 400 shekels of silver at the current commercial rate.
17.) So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre—the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the boundaries of the field—became
18.) Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who came to the gate of his city.
19.) After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
20.) The field with its cave passed from the Hittites to Abraham as a burial place.




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