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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 25 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Genesis 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/24.htm" title="Genesis 24">◄</a> Genesis 25 <a href="../genesis/26.htm" title="Genesis 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Abraham Marries Keturah</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still living, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Death of Abraham</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>This is the length of Abraham’s life, one hundred seventy-five years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with his wife Sarah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>After the death of Abraham God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Ishmael’s Descendants</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave-girl, bore to Abraham. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Mishma, Dumah, Massa, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>(This is the length of the life of Ishmael, one hundred thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria; he settled down<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-677a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> alongside of<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-677b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> all his people.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Birth and Youth of Esau and Jacob</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Isaac prayed to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> for his wife, because she was barren; and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>The children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is to be this way, why do I live?”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-681c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> So she went to inquire of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to her,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“Two nations are in your womb,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and two peoples born of you shall be divided;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the one shall be stronger than the other,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the elder shall serve the younger.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-685d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Esau Sells His Birthright</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-689e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-692f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 25:18">Genesis 25:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he fell</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 25:18">Genesis 25:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>down in opposition to</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 25:22">Genesis 25:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 25:26">Genesis 25:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>He takes by the heel</i> or <i>He supplants</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 25:30">Genesis 25:30</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Red</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 25:33">Genesis 25:33</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>today</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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