Genesis 25:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.

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  • Gen 21:14 : 14 Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
  • Judg 19:1-2 : 1 Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. 2 However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
  • Judg 19:4 : 4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.
  • Job 1:1 : 1 ¶ I. The Prologue(1:1-2:13)Job’s Good Life There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
  • Ps 17:14-15 : 14 LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring. 15 As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
  • Luke 11:11-13 : 11 What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”
  • Gen 25:1 : 1 The Death of Abraham Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah.
  • Gen 30:4 : 4 So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.
  • Gen 32:22 : 22 During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had twelve sons:
  • Gen 16:3 : 3 So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife.
  • Gen 30:9 : 9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

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  • Gen 25:4-5
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    4The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

    5Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

  • Gen 25:11-12
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    11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

    12The Sons of Ishmael This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

  • Gen 28:4-6
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    4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”

    5So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

    6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

  • 1 Chr 1:32-34
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    32Keturah’s Descendants The sons to whom Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, gave birth:Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuah.The sons of Jokshan:Sheba and Dedan.

    33The sons of Midian:Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

    34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28The sons of Abraham:Isaac and Ishmael.

  • Gen 25:18-19
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    18His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.

    19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Gen 24:4-6
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    4You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

    5The servant asked him,“What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

    6“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.

  • Gen 24:36
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    36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.

  • Gen 21:10
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    10So she said to Abraham,“Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

  • Gen 25:9
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    9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hittite.

  • Gen 24:59
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    59So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

  • Josh 24:3-4
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    3but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,

    4and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

  • Gen 25:7
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    7Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

  • Gen 25:16
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    16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps– twelve princes according to their clans.

  • Gen 24:2
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    2Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had,“Put your hand under my thigh

  • Gen 25:2
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    2She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

  • Gen 24:10
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    10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

  • Gen 24:38
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    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • Gen 21:14
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    14Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

  • Gen 24:53
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    53Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

  • Gal 4:22
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    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

  • Gen 45:23
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    23To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.

  • Gen 35:12
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    12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”

  • Gen 32:16
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    16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

  • Gen 21:12
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    12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.