Gen 25:2 She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

Gen 25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.

Gen 25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

Gen 25:5 Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;

Gen 25:6 but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.

Gen 25:7 These are all the years of Abraham's life that he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years.

Gen 25:8 Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.

Gen 25:9 Then his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre,

Gen 25:10 the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

Gen 25:11 It came about after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

Gen 25:12 Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham;

Gen 25:13 and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

Gen 25:14 and Mishma and Dumah and Massa,

Gen 25:15 Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

Gen 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their tribes.

Gen 25:17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

Gen 25:18 They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.

Gen 25:19 Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham became the father of Isaac;

Gen 25:20 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.

Gen 25:21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Gen 25:22 But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is so, why then am I this way?" So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Gen 25:23 The Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall serve the younger."

Gen 25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

Gen 25:25 Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

Gen 25:26 Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

Gen 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.

Gen 25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Gen 25:29 When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;

Gen 25:30 and Esau said to Jacob, "Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

Gen 25:31 But Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright."

Gen 25:32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?"

Gen 25:33 And Jacob said, "First swear to me"; so he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose and went on his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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Gen 26:1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Gen 26:2 The Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.

Gen 26:3 Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

Gen 26:4 I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

Gen 26:5 because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws."

Gen 26:6 So Isaac lived in Gerar.

Gen 26:7 When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking, "the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful."

Gen 26:8 It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.

Gen 26:9 Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'I might die on account of her.'"

Gen 26:10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."

Gen 26:11 So Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

Gen 26:12 Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him,

Gen 26:13 and the man became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy;

Gen 26:14 for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

Gen 26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.

Gen 26:16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are too powerful for us."

Gen 26:17 And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there.

Gen 26:18 Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them.

Gen 26:19 But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing water,

Gen 26:20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Gen 26:21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Sitnah.

Gen 26:22 He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, "At last the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

Gen 26:23 Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

Gen 26:24 The Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham; Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you, and multiply your descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham."

Gen 26:25 So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

Gen 26:26 Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.

Gen 26:27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"

Gen 26:28 They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

Gen 26:29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.'"

Gen 26:30 Then he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

Gen 26:31 In the morning they arose early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.

Gen 26:32 Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac's servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

Gen 26:33 So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

Gen 26:34 When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

Gen 26:35 and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.