And Abraham took  ¹another wife, whose name was Keturah.

And she bore him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

And Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurim and the Letushim and the Leummim.

And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

And Abraham gave  ¹all that he had to  ²Isaac.

But to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he was still living, eastward to the east country.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, one hundred seventy-five years.

And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and he was gathered to his people.

And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of  ¹Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which faces Mamre,

The field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

And after the death of Abraham, God  ¹blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's female servant, bore to Abraham.

And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

And Mishma and Dumah and Massa;

Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their peoples.

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred thirty-seven years. And he expired and died and was gathered to his people.

And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which faces Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He settled down opposite all his brothers.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.

And Isaac  ¹entreated Jehovah for his wife because she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And the children struggled with each other within her. And she said, If it is so, why am I like this? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

And Jehovah said to her,
 ¹Two nations are in your womb,
And two peoples shall be separated from your bowels.
And the one people shall be stronger than the other people.
And the older shall serve the  ²younger.

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name  ¹Esau.

And after that his brother came forth, and his hand was  ¹holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called  ²Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

And when the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

Now Isaac loved Esau because  ¹he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

And Jacob cooked a stew. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

And Esau said to Jacob, Let me swallow down some of the red stew, that red stew there, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called  ¹Edom.

And Jacob said,  ¹First sell me your birthright.

And Esau said, I am now about to die. Of what use then is this birthright to me?

And Jacob said, First swear to me. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

And Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose up and went away. Thus Esau  ¹despised his birthright.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines at Gerar.

And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I will tell you.

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will  ¹bless you; for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and will give to your seed all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.

So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said,  ¹She is my sister, for he was afraid to say, My wife, thinking, The men of this place might slay me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful in appearance.

And when he had been there a long time, Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked out through his window and saw, and there was Isaac playfully caressing Rebekah his wife.

And Abimelech called Isaac and said, So she is indeed your wife. How then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought I might die on account of her.

And 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.

And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

And Isaac sowed in that land and gained in the same year a hundredfold. And Jehovah blessed him,

And the man became  ¹rich and continued to grow  ¹richer until he became very  ¹rich.

And he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great  ¹household, so that the Philistines envied him.

Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father the Philistines had stopped up and filled with earth.

And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.

So Isaac went away from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father and which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by the same names which his father had given them.

And Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of  ¹springing water.

And the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac's shepherds, saying, The water is ours. So he called the name of the well  ¹Esek, because they contended with him.

And they dug another well; and they strove over that also, so he called the name of it  ¹Sitnah.

And he moved away from there and dug another well, but they did not strive over it, so he called the name of it  ¹Rehoboth; and he said, Now Jehovah has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.

And he went up from there to Beer-sheba.

And Jehovah  ¹appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham's sake.

And he built an altar there and called upon the name of Jehovah and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

And Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his  ¹adviser and Phicol the captain of his army.

And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?

And they said, We see plainly that Jehovah is with you; so we say, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

That you will not do us any harm, just as we have not touched you, and just as we have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of Jehovah.

And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

And they rose up early in the morning and swore to one another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

And the same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug and said to him, We have found water.

And he called it  ¹Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is  ²Beer-sheba to this day.

Now when Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

And they caused bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

Now when Isaac was old, and his eyes had become so dim that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Here I am.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, and I do not know the day of my death.

Now then, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me,

And prepare for me a tasty meal, such as I love, and bring it to me to eat, so that  ¹I may  ²bless you before I die.

Now Rebekah had been listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring it home,

Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, I just heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

Bring me game, and prepare for me a tasty meal so that I may eat it and bless you before Jehovah before my death.

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

Go now to the flock, and take two choice kids for me from there, and I will prepare them as a tasty meal for your father, such as he loves.

Then you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death.

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be as a  ¹deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.

And his mother said to him, Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.

And he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared a tasty meal, such as his father loved.

And Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

And she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

And she put the tasty meal and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of Jacob her son.

And he came to his father and said, My father. And he said, Here I am. Who are you, my son?

And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Now rise up; sit up and eat some of my game, so that  ¹you may bless me.

And Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God put it in my way.

And Isaac said to Jacob, Please come near that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.

And Jacob came near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are Esau's hands.

And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

And he said, Are you really my son Esau? And he said, I am.

And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's game, that  ¹I may bless you. So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

Then his father Isaac said to him, Please come near and kiss me, my son.

So he came near and kissed him;

and when  ¹Isaac smelled the smell of his garments, he  ²blessed him and said,
See, the smell of my son —
Like the smell of a field,
Which Jehovah has blessed.

And may God give you
Of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine.

Let peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
And let your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be those who curse you,
And blessed be those who bless you.

And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And he also had prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise up, and eat some of his son's game, that  ¹you may bless me.

And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.

And Isaac trembled very greatly and said, Who was it then who hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of it all before you came and blessed him? And blessed will he be.

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a very great and bitter cry and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

And he said, Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.

And  ¹Esau said, Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold now he has taken away my blessing. Then he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

And Isaac answered and said to Esau, I have already made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. And what then shall I do for you, my son?

And Esau said to his father, Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

And Isaac his father answered and said to him,
Behold,  ¹of the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
And  ¹of the dew of heaven from above.

Yet by your sword shall you live,
And you shall serve your brother.
And when you  ¹become restless,
You shall break his yoke from off your neck.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will slay my brother Jacob.

And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, so she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, Now your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

Therefore, my son, obey my voice now, and rise up; flee to Laban my brother at Haran,

And stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away,

Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send word and bring you back from there. Why should I be bereaved of both of you in one day?

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the  ¹daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?