The Genesis
Chapter
25
1 Then AbraHam married again, and his woman's name was ChetTura. 2 She bore to him ZomBran, JeZan, Madal, Midian, JesBoc, and SoYe.
3 Thereafter, JeZan fathered Saba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were the AsShurites, the Latusians, and the Laomim. 4 And the sons of Midian were Gephar, Aphir, Enoch, Abida, and ElDaAh. These were all the sons of ChetTura. 5 However, AbraHam had given all of his possessions to his son IsaAc… 6 he just gave gifts to the sons of his concubines; then (while he was still living) he sent them away from his son IsaAc, to a country in the east.
7 AbraHam lived to be a hundred and seventy-five years old. 8 But AbraHam [eventually found himself in] failing health and he died at a ripe old age… an old man who had lived a full life; and he was [buried] with his family.
9 His sons, IsaAc and IshMaEl buried him in the double cave that was in the field of EphRon (the son of SaAr the Chettite), which is across from Mamre. 10 So AbraHam and his woman SarAh [were both buried] in that field, inside the cave that AbraHam bought from the sons of Chet.
11 Well, after AbraHam died, God blest his son IsaAc. Then IsaAc lived by the Well of the Vision.
12 These are the generations of IshMaEl, the son of AbraHam, whom Hagar (SarAh's Egyptian handmaid) had born to AbraHam; 13 and these are the names of IshMaEl's sons by each of their generations: The firstborn of IshMaEl was NabaiOth, then Kedar, NabDeEl, MasSam, 14 MasMa, Duma, MasSe, 15 ChodDan, ThaEman, Jetur, Naphes, and Kedma. 16 Those are IshMaEl's sons, whose names are on their tents and dwellings… twelve princes of their nations.
17 And this is how long IshMaEl lived: a hundred and thirty-seven years. Then [his health started to] fail and he died and was [buried with] his family.
18 [IshMaEl] and all his descendants lived [in the area] from Evilat [in the northeast] to Sur [in the southwest], and from Assyria to just across from Egypt.
19 And these are the generations of IsaAc, the son of AbraHam: 20 AbraHam fathered IsaAc. And when IsaAc was forty years old, he took RebecKa (the daughter of BathuEl, the Syrian of Syrian MesoPotamia, the sister of Laban the Syrian) as his woman.
21 Then IsaAc prayed to Jehovah about his woman RebecKa, because she was sterile, and Jehovah heard him; so his woman (RebecKa) got pregnant. 22 And [one day], the babies that were inside her jumped. And she asked, 'Why did this happen to me?' So she went to ask Jehovah, 23 and He told her: 'There are two nations in your womb, and two races will be separated from your belly. One race will become greater than the other, and the older one will serve the younger.'
24 Well, when it came time for her to deliver, she [found that] she indeed had twins in her womb. 25 The first came out red and covered with hair all over his skin; and she named him Esau. 26 Then his brother was born while holding onto the heel of Esau with his hand, so she named him Jacob. (IsaAc was sixty years old when RebecKa bore them).
27 After the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter who lived in the country, while Jacob was a simple man who lived in a house. 28 And though IsaAc loved Esau (because he enjoyed venison), RebecKa loved Jacob.
29 Then [one day], as Jacob was cooking up some stew, Esau came in from the plains tired and weak, 30 he said to Jacob: 'Let me have a taste of that red stew, because I'm weak.' (That's when he started to be called Edom [or Red]).
31 And Jacob replied to Esau: 'Then sell me your right [as firstborn]… right now!'
32 And Esau said: 'Look, I'm about to die! What good does this right [of the firstborn] mean to me?'
33 And Jacob said to him: 'Swear to me right now!' And he swore to him. So, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob; 34 then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew, which he ate and drank, then he got up and left. And that's how Esau [showed little regard for] his birthright.
3 Thereafter, JeZan fathered Saba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were the AsShurites, the Latusians, and the Laomim. 4 And the sons of Midian were Gephar, Aphir, Enoch, Abida, and ElDaAh. These were all the sons of ChetTura. 5 However, AbraHam had given all of his possessions to his son IsaAc… 6 he just gave gifts to the sons of his concubines; then (while he was still living) he sent them away from his son IsaAc, to a country in the east.
7 AbraHam lived to be a hundred and seventy-five years old. 8 But AbraHam [eventually found himself in] failing health and he died at a ripe old age… an old man who had lived a full life; and he was [buried] with his family.
9 His sons, IsaAc and IshMaEl buried him in the double cave that was in the field of EphRon (the son of SaAr the Chettite), which is across from Mamre. 10 So AbraHam and his woman SarAh [were both buried] in that field, inside the cave that AbraHam bought from the sons of Chet.
11 Well, after AbraHam died, God blest his son IsaAc. Then IsaAc lived by the Well of the Vision.
12 These are the generations of IshMaEl, the son of AbraHam, whom Hagar (SarAh's Egyptian handmaid) had born to AbraHam; 13 and these are the names of IshMaEl's sons by each of their generations: The firstborn of IshMaEl was NabaiOth, then Kedar, NabDeEl, MasSam, 14 MasMa, Duma, MasSe, 15 ChodDan, ThaEman, Jetur, Naphes, and Kedma. 16 Those are IshMaEl's sons, whose names are on their tents and dwellings… twelve princes of their nations.
17 And this is how long IshMaEl lived: a hundred and thirty-seven years. Then [his health started to] fail and he died and was [buried with] his family.
18 [IshMaEl] and all his descendants lived [in the area] from Evilat [in the northeast] to Sur [in the southwest], and from Assyria to just across from Egypt.
19 And these are the generations of IsaAc, the son of AbraHam: 20 AbraHam fathered IsaAc. And when IsaAc was forty years old, he took RebecKa (the daughter of BathuEl, the Syrian of Syrian MesoPotamia, the sister of Laban the Syrian) as his woman.
21 Then IsaAc prayed to Jehovah about his woman RebecKa, because she was sterile, and Jehovah heard him; so his woman (RebecKa) got pregnant. 22 And [one day], the babies that were inside her jumped. And she asked, 'Why did this happen to me?' So she went to ask Jehovah, 23 and He told her: 'There are two nations in your womb, and two races will be separated from your belly. One race will become greater than the other, and the older one will serve the younger.'
24 Well, when it came time for her to deliver, she [found that] she indeed had twins in her womb. 25 The first came out red and covered with hair all over his skin; and she named him Esau. 26 Then his brother was born while holding onto the heel of Esau with his hand, so she named him Jacob. (IsaAc was sixty years old when RebecKa bore them).
27 After the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter who lived in the country, while Jacob was a simple man who lived in a house. 28 And though IsaAc loved Esau (because he enjoyed venison), RebecKa loved Jacob.
29 Then [one day], as Jacob was cooking up some stew, Esau came in from the plains tired and weak, 30 he said to Jacob: 'Let me have a taste of that red stew, because I'm weak.' (That's when he started to be called Edom [or Red]).
31 And Jacob replied to Esau: 'Then sell me your right [as firstborn]… right now!'
32 And Esau said: 'Look, I'm about to die! What good does this right [of the firstborn] mean to me?'
33 And Jacob said to him: 'Swear to me right now!' And he swore to him. So, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob; 34 then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew, which he ate and drank, then he got up and left. And that's how Esau [showed little regard for] his birthright.
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