3 Keturah's son Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's descendants became so many that there were three groups. They were called the Asshurim, the Letushim and the Leummim people.
4 Keturah's son Midian had five sons. They were called Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah.
5-6 While Abraham was still alive he gave presents to his sons, the sons of Hagar and Keturah. Then he sent all those sons away from his son Isaac. He sent them to the east to live there.
11 After Abraham died, God blessed his son Isaac. He lived near the waterhole called “The Owner of the Waterhole is Alive and He Sees Me.”
17 Their father Ishmael was a very old man now, and when he was 137 years old he died.
18 Ishmael's descendants lived in the land between Havilah and Shur. That was their country, and when people went from Egypt over to Assyria they went through there. Ishmael's family lived away from Isaac's family and from Abraham's other descendants.
23 Yahweh said to her,
24 Twin boys were born. 25 The first one was reddish and his skin was hairy, so he was named Esau, because Esau means “hairy.” 26 When the second one was born, he was holding on tightly to the heel of the first. So he was named Jacob, because Jacob means “he is holding the heel.” But when people talk about others and say, “He is holding the heel,” that means, “he is tricking people.” Their father Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
27 The two boys grew up. Esau was good at hunting and he loved being out in the bush. But Jacob was a quiet man who liked to stay at home. 28 Isaac loved Esau more, because he liked eating the animals he killed, but Rebecca loved Jacob.
29 One day Jacob was cooking some bean soup and Esau came back from hunting. He was hungry 30 and he said to his younger brother Jacob, “I am very hungry. Give me some of that red soup.” That is why Esau had two names. One was Esau and the other was Edom, because Edom means “red.”
31 “Yes, I will give you some,” Jacob answered. “But you must tell me that I am the firstborn and the leader now, and not you.”
32 Esau said, “All right! I am dying of hunger, so what good is it to me if I am the firstborn?”
33 Jacob said, “I want you to make a promise and not change it. You must promise me that I will be the firstborn and the leader now.” So Esau agreed and made the promise. 34 Then Jacob gave him some damper and some of the soup he had cooked. Esau ate the damper and drank the soup and he got up and left, saying, “What does it matter? Let him be the firstborn!”
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