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Genesis 25:7-8-20 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

7-8. Abraham died at the ripe old age of one hundred and seventy-five.

9-10. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him east of Hebron in Machpelah Cave that was part of the field Abraham had bought from Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite. Abraham was buried there beside his wife Sarah.

11. God blessed Isaac after this, and Isaac moved to a place called “The Well of the Living One who Sees Me”.

12. Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the slave woman of Sarah.

13. Ishmael had twelve sons, in this order: Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

14. Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

15. Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

16. Each of Ishmael's sons was a tribal chief, and a village was named after each of them.

17-18. Ishmael had settled in the land east of his brothers, and his sons settled everywhere from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt on the way to Asshur. Ishmael was one hundred and thirty-seven when he died.

19. Isaac was the son of Abraham,

20. and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria.Almost twenty years later,

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