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,
21. Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the Lord to let her have a child, and the Lord answered his prayer.
22. Before Rebekah gave birth, she knew she was going to have twins, because she could feel them inside her, fighting each other. She thought, “Why is this happening to me?” Finally, she asked the Lord why her twins were fighting,
23. and he told her:“Your two sons will becometwo separate nations.The younger of the twowill be stronger,and the elder sonwill be his servant.”
24. When Rebekah gave birth,
25. the first baby was covered with red hair, so he was named Esau.
26. The second baby grabbed his brother's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.