{ "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." } ] }