Genesis 25 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

The Death of Abraham

(1Ch 1:32, 33 )

Gen 25:1

Gen 25:1Abraham married another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Gen 25:2

Gen 25:2She gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Gen 25:3

Gen 25:3Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s descendants were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

Gen 25:4

Gen 25:4Midian’s sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. These were all descendants of Abraham through Keturah.

Gen 25:5

Gen 25:5Abraham gave everything he owned to his son Isaac.

Gen 25:6

Gen 25:6But before he died, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to a land in the east, away from Isaac.

Gen 25:7

Gen 25:7Abraham lived for 175 years,

Gen 25:8

Gen 25:8and he died at a ripe old age, having lived a long and satisfying life. He breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death.

Gen 25:9

Gen 25:9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

Gen 25:10

Gen 25:10This was the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites and where he had buried his wife Sarah.

Gen 25:11

Gen 25:11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi in the Negev.

Ishmael’s Descendants

(1Ch 1:29–31 )

Gen 25:12

Gen 25:12This is the account of the family of Ishmael, the son of Abraham through Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian servant.

Gen 25:13

Gen 25:13Here is a list, by their names and clans, of Ishmael’s descendants: The oldest was Nebaioth, followed by Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Gen 25:14

Gen 25:14Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

Gen 25:15

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

Gen 25:16

Gen 25:16These twelve sons of Ishmael became the founders of twelve tribes named after them, listed according to the places they settled and camped.

Gen 25:17

Gen 25:17Ishmael lived for 137 years. Then he breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death.

Gen 25:18

Gen 25:18Ishmael’s descendants occupied the region from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt in the direction of Asshur. There they lived in open hostility toward all their relatives.[fn]

The Births of Esau and Jacob

Gen 25:19

Gen 25:19This is the account of the family of Isaac, the son of Abraham.

Gen 25:20

Gen 25:20When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Gen 25:21

Gen 25:21Isaac pleaded with the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The LORD answered Isaac’s prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.

Gen 25:22

Gen 25:22But the two children struggled with each other in her womb. So she went to ask the LORD about it. “Why is this happening to me?” she asked.

Gen 25:23

Gen 25:23And the LORD told her, “The sons in your womb will become two nations. From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals. One nation will be stronger than the other; and your older son will serve your younger son.”

Gen 25:24

Gen 25:24And when the time came to give birth, Rebekah discovered that she did indeed have twins!

Gen 25:25

Gen 25:25The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau.[fn]

Gen 25:26

Gen 25:26Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Esau Sells His Birthright

Gen 25:27

Gen 25:27As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home.

Gen 25:28

Gen 25:28Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

(Heb 12:16 )

Gen 25:29

Gen 25:29One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry.

Gen 25:30

Gen 25:30Esau said to Jacob, “I’m starved! Give me some of that red stew!” (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means “red.”)

Gen 25:31

Gen 25:31“All right,” Jacob replied, “but trade me your rights as the firstborn son.”

Gen 25:32

Gen 25:32“Look, I’m dying of starvation!” said Esau. “What good is my birthright to me now?”

Gen 25:33

Gen 25:33But Jacob said, “First you must swear that your birthright is mine.” So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the firstborn to his brother, Jacob.

Gen 25:34

Gen 25:34Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate the meal, then got up and left. He showed contempt for his rights as the firstborn.

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NLT Footnotes

(25:18)

The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

(25:25)

Esau sounds like a Hebrew term that means “hair.”

(25:26)

Jacob sounds like the Hebrew words for “heel” and “deceiver.”

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