even tide. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and behold the camels
were coming. And Rebecca lift up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
lighted off the camel, and said unto the servant: what man is this that
cometh against us in the field? And the servant said: it is my master.
And then she took her mantle, and put it about her. And the servant
told Isaac all that he had done. Then Isaac brought her in to his
mother Sara's tent, and took Rebecca and she became his wife, and he
loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.
Chapter .xxv.
Abraham took him another wife called Ketura, which bare him Simran,
Iacksan, Medan, Midian, Iesback and Suah. And Iacksan begat Seba and
Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Assurim, Letusim and Leumim. And the
sons of Midian were Epha, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Elda. All these were
the children of Bethura. {Ketura} But Abraham gave all that he had unto
Isaac. And unto the sons of his concubines he gave gifts, and sent them
away from Isaac his son (while he yet lived) eastward, unto the east
country. These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: an
hundred and seventy five year and then fell sick and died, in a lusty
age (when he had lived enough) and was put unto his people. And his
sons Isaac and Ismael buried him in the double cave in the field of
Ephron son, of Zoar the Hethite before Mamre. Which field Abraham
bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried and Sara his wife.
And after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son, which dwelt
by the well of the living and seeing. These are the generations of
Ismael Abraham's son, which Hagar the Egyptian Sara's handmaid bare
unto Abraham. And these are the names of the sons of Ismael, with their
names in their kindreds. The eldest son of Ismael, Nevatoth, then
Redar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Misma, Duma, Masa, Hadar, Thema, Ietur, Naphis
and Kedma. These are the sons of Ismael, and these are their names, in
their towns and castles twelve princes of nations. And these are the
years of the life of Ismael: an hundred and thirty seven years, and
then he fell sick and died, and was laid unto his people. And he dwelt
from Evila unto Sur that is before Egypt, as men go toward the
Assyrians. And he died in the presence of all his brethren. And these
are the generations of Isaac Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac. And
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca to wife the daughter of
Bethuel the Sirian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Sirian. And
Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife: because she was
barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebecca his wife
conceived: and the children strove together within her. Then she said:
if it should go so to pass, what helpeth it that I am with child? And
she went and asked the LORD. And the LORD said unto her there are two
manner of people in thy womb, and two nations shall spring out of thy
bowels, and the one nation shall be mightier than the other and the
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