62 | Genesis 24:61
61 Then Re bekah and her at ten dants got ready and mounted the cam els and went back with the man. So the ser vant took Re bekah and left.
62 Now Isaac had come from Beer La hai Roi, u for he was liv ing in the Negev. v 63 He went out to the field one eve ning to med i tate, a w and as he looked up, he saw cam els ap proaching. 64 Re bekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel 65 and asked the ser vant,“ Who is that man in the field com ing to meet us?”“ He is my mas ter,” the ser vant an swered. So she took her veil and cov ered her self. 66 Then the ser vant told Isaac all he had done. 67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he mar ried Re bekah. x So she be came his wife, and he loved her; y and Isaac was comforted after his mother’ s death. z
The Death of Abraham
25:1-4pp— 1Ch 1:32-33
Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 She bore him Zim ran,
25 Jok shan, Me dan, Mid ian, Ish bak and Shuah. a 3 Jok shan was the fa ther of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. 4 The sons of Mid ian were Ephah, Epher, Ha nok, Abida and El daah. All these were de scendants of Keturah.
5 Abra ham left ev ery thing he owned to Isaac. b 6 But while he was still liv ing, he gave gifts to the sons of his con cu bines c and sent them away from his son Isaac d to the land of the east.
7 Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years. 8 Then Abra ham breathed his last and died at a good old age, e an old man and full of years; and he was gath ered to his peo ple. f 9 His sons Isaac and Ish mael bur ied him g in the cave of Mach pe lah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zo har the Hit tite, h 10 the field Abra ham had bought from the Hit tites. b i There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. 11 After Abraham’ s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer La hai Roi. j
24:62 u Ge 16:14; 25:11 v Ge 20:1
24:63 w Ps 1:2; 77:12; 119:15, 27, 48, 97, 148; 143:5; 145:5
24:67 x Ge 25:20 y Ge 29:18, 20
z Ge 23:1‐2
25:2 a 1Ch 1:32, 33 25:5 b Ge 24:36
25:6 c Ge 22:24 d Ge 21:10, 14
25:8 e Ge 15:15 f ver 17; Ge 35:29; 49:29, 33
25:9 g Ge 35:29 h Ge 50:13
25:10 i Ge 23:16 25:11 j Ge 16:14
25:12 k Ge 16:1 l Ge 16:15
25:16 m Ge 17:20 25:17 n ver 8 25:18 o Ge 16:12
25:20 p ver 26; Ge 26:34 q Ge 24:67 r Ge 24:29
Ishmael’ s Sons
25:12-16pp— 1Ch 1:29-31
12 This is the ac count of the fam ily line of Abra ham’ s son Ish mael, whom Sar ah’ s slave, Hagar k the Egyp tian, bore to Abra ham. l
13 These are the names of the sons of Ish mael, listed in the or der of their birth: Ne ba ioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Du mah, Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. 16 These were the sons of Ish mael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rul ers m ac cord ing to their set tle ments and camps. 17 Ish mael lived a hun dred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gath ered to his people. n
18 His de scen dants set tled in the area from Hav i lah to Shur, near the east ern bor der of Egypt, as you go to ward Ashur. And they lived in hos til ity to ward c all the tribes related to them. o
Jacob and Esau 19 This is the ac count of the fam ily line of Abra ham’ s son Isaac.
Abra ham be came the fa ther of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old p when he mar ried |
Rebekah q daugh ter of Be thuel the Ar a mean from Pad dan Aram d and sis ter of La ban r the |
Aramean. |
a 63 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. |
b 10 Or the descendants of Heth |
c 18 Or lived to the east of |
d 20 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia |
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24:65 took her veil and covered herself. Probably a sign that she was betrothed. Having seen Isaac, she indicates her willingness to marry him.
25:1 – 11 The Death of Abraham. This concludes the account of Abraham’ s life, which started in 11:27. For completeness, it records additional family details. 25:1 another wife. See note on 16:3. The author provides few details about Abraham’ s relationship with Keturah and does not view her sons as being on a par with Isaac. Although Abraham provides for these sons during his lifetime, they do not inherit anything when he dies; everything goes to Isaac( vv. 5 – 6).
Given how Abraham treats Keturah’ s sons, it seems likely that he viewed both Keturah and Hagar as concubines. Certain OT contexts portray such women as married, being“ second” wives, but not necessarily of equal status to the“ first” wife. Hagar, e. g., continued to be Sarah’ s maidservant after the birth of Ishmael( 16:1 – 3; 21:10,12; cf. 29:24,29; 30:4,9). While 25:1 – 6 highlights the identity of various people groups descended from Abraham, it carefully distinguishes these descendants from Isaac. He alone is Abraham’ s heir. 25:8 he was gathered to his people. This expression may indicate belief in life after death. It occurs elsewhere in Genesis in conjunction with the deaths of Ishmael( v. 17),
Isaac( 35:28 – 29), and Jacob( 49:33). Abraham was buried in the cave of Machpelah( v. 9), which he had bought from Ephron( 23:1 – 20). 25:12 – 18 Ishmael’ s Sons. While the main story focuses on Isaac and his sons, Genesis also includes some information about Ishmael’ s family. 25:12 This is the account of the family line of. A formulaic heading that introduces new sections of material in Genesis( see note on 2:4). 25:18 they lived in hostility toward. Regardless of how this phrase is translated( see NIV text note), it confirms what God predicted in 16:12. 25:19— 36:43 The Family of Isaac. This is the next main narrative section in Genesis. It concentrates mainly on Isaac’ s twin sons,