1 And Abraham adds and takes a wife, and her name [is] Keturah; 2 and she bears to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 And Jokshan has begotten Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim; 4 and the sons of Midian [are] Ephah, and Epher, and Enoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah: all these [are] sons of Keturah. 5 And Abraham gives all that he has to Isaac; 6 and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham has, Abraham has given gifts, and sends them away from his son Isaac (in his being yet alive) eastward, to the east country. 7 And these [are] the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years; 8 and Abraham expires, and dies in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered to his people. 9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre— 10 the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth—there Abraham has been buried, and his wife Sarah. 11 And it comes to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesses his son Isaac; and Isaac dwells by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder. 12 And these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, has borne to Abraham; 13 and these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their births: firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 16 these are sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their villages, and by their towers; twelve princes according to their peoples. 17 And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expires, and dies, and is gathered to his people; 18 and they dwell from Havilah to Shur, which [is] before Egypt, in [your] going toward Asshur; in the presence of all his brothers has he fallen. 19 And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham has begotten Isaac; 20 and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife. 21 And Isaac makes plea to YHWH before his wife, for she [is] barren: and YHWH accepts his plea, and his wife Rebekah conceives, 22 and the children struggle together within her, and she says, “If [it is] right—why [am] I thus?” And she goes to seek YHWH. 23 And YHWH says to her, “Two nations [are] in your womb, and two peoples from your bowels are parted; and the [one] people is stronger than the [other] people; and the older serves the younger.” 24 And her days to bear are fulfilled, and behold, twins [are] in her womb; 25 and the first comes out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau; 26 and afterward his brother has come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau’s heel, and one calls his name Jacob; and Isaac [is] a son of sixty years in her bearing them. 27 And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted [with] hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob [is] a plain man, inhabiting tents; 28 and Isaac loves Esau, for [his] game [is] in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob. 29 And Jacob boils stew, and Esau comes in from the field, and he [is] weary; 30 and Esau says to Jacob, “Please let me eat some of this red-red thing, for I [am] weary”; therefore [one] has called his name Edom; 31 and Jacob says, “Sell your birthright to me today.” 32 And Esau says, “Behold, I am going to die, and what is this to me—a birthright?” 33 And Jacob says, “Swear to me today”: and he swears to him, and sells his birthright to Jacob; 34 and Jacob has given bread and stew of lentils to Esau, and he eats, and drinks, and rises, and goes; and Esau despises the birthright.
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Genesis 25 Literal Standard Version
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People & places in this chapter
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People
Abida
One of the five sons of Midian, descendants of Keturah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:4; 1 Chronicles 1:33
Abraham
Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12–25
Adbeel
One of the twelve sons of Ishmael, listed among the princes of his people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:13
Dedan
A son of Jokshan, grandson of Abraham and Keturah; the Asshurites, Letushites and Leummites are listed as his sons.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32
Dumah
A son of Ishmael whose name is also attached to a place in Arabia.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:14
Eldaah
The last-named of the five sons of Midian, descendants of Keturah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:4; 1 Chronicles 1:33
Ephah
The first-named of the five sons of Midian, descendants of Keturah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:4; 1 Chronicles 1:33
Epher
One of the five sons of Midian, descendants of Keturah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:4; 1 Chronicles 1:33
Ephron
A Hittite at Hebron, son of Zohar, who sold Abraham the field and cave of Machpelah for four hundred shekels of silver, where Abraham buried Sarah and was himself buried.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 23:8–10; Genesis 23:16; Genesis 25:9
Esau
Isaac's elder son, who traded his birthright for a bowl of stew.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–27; 36
Hadad
A son of Ishmael numbered among the twelve princes of his people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:15
Isaac
The long-promised son, nearly offered on Moriah, through whom the covenant continued.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 21–27
Ishbak
A son of Abraham by Keturah who fathered an Arabian people of the east.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 25:2
Ishmael
Abraham's son by Hagar, blessed by God to become a great nation.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 16; 17:20; 21; 25:12–18
Jacob
He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–35; 46–49
Jetur
One of Ishmael's twelve sons, later linked to the Itureans.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:15
Jokshan
A son of Abraham by Keturah and father of the trading peoples Sheba and Dedan.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 25:2-3
Kedar
Second son of Ishmael whose name marks a prominent northern Arabian tribe.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:13
Kedemah
The last-named of Ishmael's twelve sons in the genealogy.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:15
Keturah
The wife Abraham took after Sarah's death, mother of six more sons.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:1-6
Laban
Bethuel's son and Rebekah's brother, who welcomed Abraham's servant, later became Jacob's uncle and father-in-law, deceived him by giving him Leah, and pursued him to Gilead when…
Cited in the guide: Genesis 24:29; Genesis 25:20; Genesis 29:13
Massa
One of the twelve sons of Ishmael listed among his tribal princes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:14
Medan
A son of Abraham by Keturah who fathered a people of the Arabian east.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 25:2
Mibsam
A son of Ishmael counted among the twelve princes of his descendants.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:13
Midian
A son of Abraham by Keturah and ancestor of the Midianites of the northwestern Arabian desert.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 25:2
Mishma
One of Ishmael's twelve sons, named among the tribal princes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:14
Naphish
A son of Ishmael counted among the twelve tribal princes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:15
Nebaioth
Ishmael's firstborn son and one of the twelve princes God promised him.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:13
Rebekah
Wife of Isaac and mother of the twins Jacob and Esau.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 24-27
Sheba
A son of Jokshan, grandson of Abraham and Keturah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32
Shuah
The youngest son of Abraham by Keturah and ancestor of an eastern desert people.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 25:2
Tema
A son of Ishmael whose name marks an oasis and tribe of the desert.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25:15
Zimran
A son of Abraham by Keturah, the wife he took after Sarah's death.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 25:2
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Chronicles 1:32–33; Genesis 28:1; Genesis 23:1–2
- 2 1 Chronicles 1:32–33; Numbers 31:8; Genesis 37:36; Numbers 25:17–18; Numbers 31:2
- 3 Ezekiel 25:13; 1 Kings 10:1; Ezekiel 27:6; Jeremiah 49:8; Job 6:19
- 4 Isaiah 60:6
- 5 Genesis 24:36; Galatians 3:29; Hebrews 1:2; Matthew 11:27; Romans 8:32
- 6 Genesis 21:14; Judges 6:3; Acts 14:17; Matthew 5:45; Judges 19:1–2
- 7 Genesis 12:4
- 8 Genesis 35:28–29; Genesis 15:15; 1 Chronicles 29:28; Genesis 49:33; Job 5:26
- 9 Genesis 50:13; Genesis 35:29; Genesis 49:29–30; Genesis 21:9–10; Genesis 23:9–20
- 10 Genesis 23:16; Genesis 49:31
- 11 Genesis 16:14; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 24:62; Genesis 12:2; Genesis 17:19
- 12 Psalm 83:6; Genesis 17:20; Genesis 21:13; Genesis 16:10–15
- 13 1 Chronicles 1:29–31; Isaiah 60:7; Isaiah 42:11; Psalm 120:5; Song of Songs 1:5
- 14 Isaiah 21:16; Isaiah 21:11
- 15 1 Chronicles 5:19; Job 2:11
- 16 Genesis 17:20; Genesis 17:23
- 17 Genesis 15:15; Genesis 25:7–8
- 18 Genesis 16:12; Genesis 20:1; Genesis 21:21; 2 Kings 23:29; Psalm 78:64
- 19 Matthew 1:2; Luke 3:34; Acts 7:8; 1 Chronicles 1:32
- 20 Genesis 24:29; Genesis 24:67; Genesis 22:23; Deuteronomy 26:5; Genesis 31:24
- 21 2 Chronicles 33:13; Ezra 8:23; Luke 1:13; Isaiah 58:9; 1 Chronicles 5:20
- 22 1 Samuel 9:9; 1 Samuel 28:6; 1 Samuel 30:8; 1 Samuel 10:22; Ezekiel 20:31
- 23 Romans 9:10–13; Genesis 27:40; Genesis 27:29; 2 Samuel 8:14; Malachi 1:2–5
- 25 Genesis 27:11; Genesis 27:23; Genesis 27:16
- 26 Genesis 27:36; Hosea 12:3; Genesis 38:28–30
- 27 Hebrews 11:9; Genesis 21:20; Genesis 28:10–11; Genesis 6:9; Genesis 10:9
- 28 Genesis 27:19; Genesis 27:31; Genesis 27:4; Genesis 27:9; Genesis 27:25
- 29 Isaiah 40:30–31; Proverbs 13:25; 1 Samuel 14:28; Judges 8:4–5; 1 Samuel 14:31
- 30 Numbers 20:14–21; Genesis 36:43; Genesis 36:1; Deuteronomy 23:7; Exodus 15:15
- 32 Job 34:9; Job 22:17; Job 21:15; Malachi 3:14; Exodus 22:9
- 33 Hebrews 12:16; Genesis 27:36; Hebrews 6:16; Genesis 24:3; Genesis 36:6–7
- 34 Hebrews 12:16–17; Philippians 3:18–19; Matthew 26:15; Isaiah 22:13; 1 Corinthians 15:32
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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… might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth, it was said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people are in thy body; and the one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger." From which it is evident, that not only [were there] prophecies of the patriarchs, but …
I know, too, that Esau was deceived by a longing for lentiles, and that David took blame to himself for desiring water, and that our King was tempted not by flesh but bread.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Thus, in the first place, at his birth, since he laid hold on his brother's heel, he was called Jacob, that is, the supplanter--one who holds, but is not held; binding the feet, but not being bound; striving and conquering; grasping in his hand his adversary's heel, that is, victory.
… her handmaid, after Abraham had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife." And of Keturah, whom he took after Sarah's departure, we read, "Then again Abraham took a wife, whose name was Keturah." Lo!
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
But unto the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from his son Isaac, (while he yet lived,) eastward, unto the east country." Therefore the sons of the concubines, that is, the heretics and the carnal Jews, have some gifts, but do not attain the promised kingdom; "For they which are the children of the flesh, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)