Book Title: Genesis
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Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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________________ Genesis 25:17 my master, tell me. If not, tell me so I will had happened. 67Isaac brought Rebekah know where I stand either way." 50 Laban and Bethuel both responded, "This is all the LORD's doing. We have nothing to say about it. 51Here is Rebekah, right in into his mother Sarah's tent. He married Rebekah and loved her. So Isaac found comfort after his mother's death. front of you. Take her and go. She will be the Abraham and Keturah's children 21 of LORD wift - 52 your master's son, just as the LoRt 25 Abraham married another wife, named they said, he bowed low before the LORD. 53 The servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. To her brother and to her mother he gave the finest gifts. 54He and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they got up in the morning, the servant said, "See me off to my master." 55 Her brother and mother said, "Let the young woman stay with us not more than ten days, and after that she may go." 56 But he said to them, "Don't delay me. The LORD has made my trip successful. See me off so that I can go to my master.” 57 They said, "Summon the young woman, and let's ask her opinion." 58 They called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go." 59 So they sent off their sister Rebekah, her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah, saying to her, "May you, our sister, become thousands of ten thousand; may your children possess their enemies' cities." 61 Rebekah and her young women got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left. 62 Now Isaac had come from the region of Beer-lahai-roi and had settled in the arid southern plain. 63One evening, Isaac went out to inspect the pasture," and while staring he saw camels approaching. ""Rebekah stared at Isaac. She got down from the camel 65 and said to the servant, "Who is this man walking through the pasture to meet us?" The servant said, "He's my master." So she took her headscarf and covered herself. 66 The servant told Isaac everything that were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shua. 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's sons were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. "Midian's sons were Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah's sons. 5Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac. To the sons of Abraham's secondary wives, Abraham gave gifts and, while he was still living, sent them away from his son Isaac to land in the east. Abraham's death 'Abraham lived to the age of 175. Abraham took his last breath and died after a good long life, a content old man, and he was placed with his ancestors. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave in Machpelah, which is in the field of Zohar's son Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. 10 Thus Abraham and his wife Sarah were both buried in the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites. "After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac lived in Beer-lahai-roi. Ishmael's descendants 12 These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore for Abraham. 13 These are the names of Ishmael's sons, by their names and according to their birth order: Nebaioth, Ishmael's oldest son; Kedar; Adbeel; Mibsam; 14Mishma; Dumah; Massa; 15 Hadad; Tema; Jetur; Naphish; and Kedemah. 16 These are Ishmael's sons. These are their names by their villages and their settlements: twelve tribal leaders according to their tribes. 17Ishmael lived to the age of 137. He took his last breath and died, and Heb uncertain; LXX through the desert of "Heb uncertain; possibly to walk around in the pasture or to meditate in the pasture ......

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