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January 11
May your descendants be strong
and conquer the cities of their
enemies.”
61 Then
Rebekah and her servant girls
mounted the camels and followed the
man. So Abraham’s servant took Re
bekah and went on his way.
62 Meanwhile, I
saac, whose home
was in the Negev, had returned from
Beer-lahai-roi. 63 One evening as he
was walking and meditating in the
fields, 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 I
saac 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.
25:1 Abra
ham
married another wife,
whose name was Keturah. 2 She gave
birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Mid
ian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 Jokshan was
the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s descendants were the A
sshurites,
Letushites, and Leummites. 4 Midian’s
sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abi
da, and Eldaah. These were all descendants of Abraham through Keturah.
5 Abrah am gave everyt hing 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 I saac.
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 Abra
ham had purchased
from the Hittites and where he had
buried his wife Sarah. 11 After Abra
ham’s death, God blessed his son
Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi
in the Negev.
12 This is the account of the fam
ily 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, Je
tur, 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.*
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
Aramean 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 I saac’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.
23 And 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.”
24 And when the time came to give
birth, Rebekah discovered that she
did indeed have twins! 25 The first
one was very red at birth and covered
with thick hair like a fur coat. So they
named him Esau.* 26 Then the other
twin was born with his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him
Jacob.* I saac was sixty years old when
the twins were born.
