Skip to content
Opens in a new window
Listen to this chapter • 4:11

[1] Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

[2] She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

[3] Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

[4] The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

[5] Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.

[6] But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

[7] These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years.

[8] Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

[9] Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,

[10] the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.

[11] After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.

[12] These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

[13] These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

[14] Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

[15] Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

[16] These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.

[17] (These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)

[18] They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.

[19] These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac,

[20] and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

[21] And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

[22] The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.

[23] And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.”

[24] When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.

[25] The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.

[26] Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

[27] When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

[28] Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

[29] Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

[30] And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom. )

[31] Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.”

[32] Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”

[33] Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

[34] Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis — Chapters