OET-RV GEN Chapter 25

25 Then Avraham married another woman named Keturah, 2 and she gave birth to Zimran, Yakeshan, Medan, Midyan, Yishbak, and Shuah. 3 Yakeshan fathered Sheva and Dedan, and the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurim, the Letushim, and the Le’umim. 4 Midyan’s sons were Eyfah, Efer, Hanok, Avida, and Elda’ah. All of those were Keturah’s descendants.

5-7 ⇔Avraham went on to live to be 175 years old. He gave valuable gifts to all the sons of his slave-wives, then he forced them to move to the east to ensure that they would be removed from his son Yitshak (Isaac). Then he left everything else he owned to Yitshak.

8 Then Avraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, elderly and satisfied, and he joined his ancestors in death. 9 His sons Yitshak and Yishmael (Ishmael) buried him in Makpelah’s cave (in the field of Efron, Tsohar the Hiti’s son, which faced Mamre)—10 the field that Avraham had bought from Het’s sons.[ref] So Avraham’s body was laid there alongside that of his wife Sarah. 11 After his death, God blessed his son Yitshak who lived near Be’er-Lahay-Ro’i.

12 Now these are the generations of Yishmael (Ishmael) the son of Avraham, whom Hagar the Mitsri (Egyptian), Sarah’s female slave, had given birth to for Avraham. 13 These are the names of Yishmael’s sons, by their names according to their births: Yishmael’s firstborn was Nevayot, then Kedar, Adbe’el, Mivsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Masa, 15 Hadad, Teyma, Yetur, Nafish, and Kedemah. 16 Those were Yishmael’s sons, and those are their names by their settlements and by their camps—twelve rulers according to their tribes. 17 Yishmael went on to live to be 137 years old, before breathing his last and dying and joining those who’d gone before. 18 His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur (which is near Mitsrayim (Egypt) as you go toward Ashur (Assyria)). He fell in the face of all his brothers.[fn]

19 These are the generations of Avraham’s son Yitshak (Isaac): Avraham fathered Yitshak 20 and Yitshak was forty years old when he married Rivkah. (She was the daughter of Betuel the Aramean from Padan-Aram, the sister of Lavan (Laban) the Aramean.) 21 In due course, Yitshak prayed to Yahweh on his wife’s behalf because she was barren. Yahweh answered his prayer and his wife Rivkah got pregnant, 22 but the twins kept jostling each other within her womb, so she asked, “Why’s this happening to me?” She also asked Yahweh about it 23 and he responded,

“There’s two nations inside your womb—

two different peoples will come from within you.

One group will become stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.”[ref]

24 When the time came to give birth, she gave birth to twin boys. 25 The firstborn came out quite red and covered with hair like a fur coat, so they named him ‘Esav’ (Esau) (which means ‘hairy’). 26 Then his brother was born and his hand grabbed Esav’s heel, so he was named ‘Ya’akov’ (Jacob) (which means ‘heel-grabber’). Yitshak (Isaac) was sixty years old when they were born.

27 As the boys grew up, Esav (Esau) got good at hunting, a man of the outdoors, but Ya’akov (Jacob) was a quiet man who stayed around the tents. 28 Yitshak (Isaac) liked the taste of game meat so he loved Esav, but Rivkah loved Ya’akov.

29 One day, Ya’akov was cooking some stew when Esav arrived home from being out, and he was very hungry 30 and asked Ya’akov, “I’m starving—can I have some of that yummy-looking red stuff.” (After that, Esav’s nickname became ‘Edom’, meaning ‘red’.)

31 “Well, now,” Ya’akov answered, “sell me your future inheritance.”

32 “Listen, I’m dying of starvation,” said Esav, “so what use would a future inheritance be to me?”

33 “Well then, make a vow to me,” insisted Ya’akov.

So Esav promised him, effectively selling his future inheritance to Ya’akov,[ref] 34 and Ya’akov gave him some of the lentil stew and some bread. So Esav ate and drank and left again, thus despising his own inheritance as firstborn son.