Barashyt(Genesis) — 25

1 Abraham married another wife, whose name was Katurah. 

2 She gave birth to Zimran, Yukshan, Madan, Midyan, Ishbak, and Shuah. 

3 Yukshan was the father of Shaba and Dadan. Dadan’s descendants were the Asshurites, Latushites, and Laummites. 

4 Midian’s sons were Aphah, Aphar, Hanuch, Abida, and Aldaah. These were all descendants of Abraham through Katurah.

5 Abraham gave everything he owned to his son Yachaq. 

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 Yachaq.

7 Abraham lived for one hundred and seventy five 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 Yachaq and Ishma'al buried him in the cave of Machpalah, near Mamra, in the field of Aphrun son of Zuhar the Hittite. 

10 This was the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites and where he had buried his wife Sharah. 

11 After Abraham’s death, 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH Barak his son Yachaq, who settled near Baar-lahay-ruy in the Nagab.

12 This is the account of the family of Ishma'al, the son of Abraham through Hagar, Sharah’s Mitzraym servant. 

13 Here is a list, by their names and clans, of Ishma'al’s descendants: The oldest was Nabaiuth, followed by Kadar, Adbaal, Mibsam,

14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 

15 Hadad, Tama, Yatur, Naphish, and Kadamah. 

16 These twelve sons of Ishma'al became the founders of twelve tribes named after them, listed according to the places they settled and camped. 

17 Ishma'al lived for 137 years. Then he breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death. 

18 Ishma'al’s descendants occupied the region from Habilah to Shur, which is east of Mitzraym in the direction of Asshur. There they lived in open hostility toward all their relatives.

The Births of Asau and Ya'aqub

19 This is the account of the family of Yachaq, the son of Abraham. 

20 When Yachaq was forty years old, he married Rabakah, the daughter of Bathual the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

21 Yachaq pleaded with 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH answered Yachaq’s prayer, and Rabakah became pregnant with twins. 

22 But the two children struggled with each other in her womb. So she went to ask 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH about it. “Why is this happening to me?” she asked.

23 And 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH 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, Rabakah 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 Asau. 

26 Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Asau’s heel. So they named him Ya'aqub. Yachaq was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Asau Sells His Birthright

27 As the boys grew up, Asau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Ya'aqub had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home. 

28 Yachaq loved Asau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Asau brought home, but Rabakah loved Ya'aqub.

29 One day when Ya'aqub was cooking some stew, Asau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry. 

30 Asau said to Ya'aqub, “I’m starved! Give me some of that red stew!” (This is how Asau got his other name, Adum, which means “red.”)

31 “All right,” Ya'aqub replied, “but trade me your rights as the firstborn son.”

32 “Look, I’m dying of starvation!” said Asau. “What good is my birthright to me now?”

33 But Ya'aqub said, “First you must swear that your birthright is mine.” So Asau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the firstborn to his brother, Ya'aqub.

34 Then Ya'aqub gave Asau some bread and lentil stew. Asau ate the meal, then got up and left. Thus Asau despised his birthright.