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Genesis 25:2-18 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

2. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

3. Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan, and the descendants of Dedan were the Asshurim, the Letushim, and the Leummim.

4. The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were Keturah's descendants.

5. Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac;

6. but while he was still alive, he gave presents to the sons his other wives had borne him. Then he sent these sons to the land of the East, away from his son Isaac.

7-8. Abraham died at the ripe old age of 175.

9. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in Machpelah Cave, in the field east of Mamre that had belonged to Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

10. It was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites; both Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there.

11. After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near “The Well of the Living One who Sees Me”.

12. Ishmael, whom Hagar, the Egyptian slave of Sarah, bore to Abraham,

13. had the following sons, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

14. Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

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

16. They were the ancestors of twelve tribes, and their names were given to their villages and camping places.

17. Ishmael was 137 years old when he died.

18. The descendants of Ishmael lived in the territory between Havilah and Shur, to the east of Egypt on the way to Assyria. They lived apart from the other descendants of Abraham.

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