{
  "chapterNum": 25,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.\n    \nAll these were descendants of Keturah."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "Abraham lived a total of 175 years."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "These are the names of the sons of Ishmael in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "Mishma, Dumah, Massa,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 17,
      "text": "Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 18,
      "text": "Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 19,
      "text": "This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 20,
      "text": "and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram  and the sister of Laban the Aramean."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 21,
      "text": "Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 22,
      "text": "But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 23,
      "text": "and He declared to her:\n    \n  “Two nations are in your womb,\n    and two peoples from within you will be separated;\n  one people will be stronger than the other,\n    and the older will serve the younger.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 24,
      "text": "When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 25,
      "text": "The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 26,
      "text": "After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 27,
      "text": "When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 28,
      "text": "Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 29,
      "text": "One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 30,
      "text": "He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 31,
      "text": "“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 32,
      "text": "“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 33,
      "text": "“Swear to me first,” Jacob said.\n    \nSo Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 34,
      "text": "Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright."
    }
  ]
}