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eer-lahai-roi. 63 One evening as he was walking and meditating in the fields,
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he looked up and saw the camels coming. 64 When Rebekah looked up and
saw Isaac, she quickly dismounted from her camel. 65 “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant.
And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her
veil. 66 Then the servant told Isaac everything he had done.
67 And Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent, and she became
his wife. He loved her deeply, and she was a special comfort to him after the
death of his mother.
The Death of Abraham
Abraham married another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 She
gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shu
ah. 3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s descendants were
the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites. 4 Midian’s sons were Ephah,
Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. These were all descendants of Abraham
through Keturah.
5 Abraham gave everything he owned to his son Isaac. 6 But 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.
7 Abraham lived for 175 years, 8 and he died at a ripe old age, having lived
a long and satisfying life. He breathed his last and joined his ancestors in
death. 9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near
Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite. 10 This was the field
Abraham had purchased from the Hittites and where he had buried his wife
Sarah. 11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near
Beer-lahai-roi in the Negev.
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Ishmael’s Descendants
12 This is the account of the family of Ishmael, the son of Abraham through
Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian servant. 13 Here is a list, by their names and clans, of
Ishmael’s descendants: The oldest was Nebaioth, followed by Kedar, Adbeel,
Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and
Kedemah. 16 These twelve sons of Ishmael became the founders of twelve
tribes named after them, listed according to the places they settled and
camped. 17 Ishmael lived for 137 years. Then he breathed his last and joined
his ancestors in death. 18 Ishmael’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.*
The Births of Esau and Jacob
19 This is the account of the family of Isaac, the son of Abraham. 20 When Isaac
was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Ara
mean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
21 Isaac 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. 22 But 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.
25:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
