¹ Abraham prit encore une femme, nommée Ketura.

² Elle lui enfanta Zimran, Jokschan, Medan, Madian, Jischbak et Schuach.

³ Jokschan engendra Séba et Dedan. Les fils de Dedan furent les Aschurim, les Letuschim et les Leummim.

⁴ Les fils de Madian furent Epha, Epher, Hénoc, Abida et Eldaa. -Ce sont là tous les fils de Ketura.

⁵ Abraham donna tous ses biens à Isaac.

⁶ Il fit des dons aux fils de ses concubines; et, tandis qu'il vivait encore, il les envoya loin de son fils Isaac du côté de l'orient, dans le pays d'Orient.

⁷ Voici les jours des années de la vie d'Abraham: il vécut cent soixante quinze ans.

⁸ Abraham expira et mourut, après une heureuse vieillesse, âgé et rassasié de jours, et il fut recueilli auprès de son peuple.

⁹ Isaac et Ismaël, ses fils, l'enterrèrent dans la caverne de Macpéla, dans le champ d'Ephron, fils de Tsochar, le Héthien, vis-à-vis de Mamré.

¹⁰ C'est le champ qu'Abraham avait acquis des fils de Heth. Là furent enterrés Abraham et Sara, sa femme.

¹¹ Après la mort d'Abraham, Dieu bénit Isaac, son fils. Il habitait près du puits de Lachaï-roï.

¹² Voici la postérité d'Ismaël, fils d'Abraham, qu'Agar, l'Egyptienne, servante de Sara, avait enfanté à Abraham.

¹³ Voici les noms des fils d'Ismaël, par leurs noms, selon leurs générations: Nebajoth, premier-né d'Ismaël, Kédar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

¹⁴ Mischma, Duma, Massa,

¹⁵ Hadad, Théma, Jethur, Naphisch et Kedma.

¹⁶ Ce sont là les fils d'Ismaël; ce sont là leurs noms, selon leurs parcs et leurs enclos. Ils furent les douze chefs de leurs peuples.

¹⁷ Et voici les années de la vie d'Ismaël: cent trente-sept ans. Il expira et mourut, et il fut recueilli auprès de son peuple.

¹⁸ Ses fils habitèrent depuis Havila jusqu'à Schur, qui est en face de l'Egypte, en allant vers l'Assyrie. Il s'établit en présence de tous ses frères.

¹⁹ Voici la postérité d'Isaac, fils d'Abraham. Abraham engendra Isaac.

²⁰ Isaac était âgé de quarante ans, quand il prit pour femme Rebecca, fille de Bethuel, l'Araméen, de Paddan-Aram, et soeur de Laban, l'Araméen.

²¹ Isaac implora l'Eternel pour sa femme, car elle était stérile, et l'Eternel l'exauça: Rebecca, sa femme, devint enceinte.

²² Les enfants se heurtaient dans son sein; et elle dit: S'il en est ainsi, pourquoi suis-je enceinte? Elle alla consulter l'Eternel.

²³ Et l'Eternel lui dit: Deux nations sont dans ton ventre, et Deux peuples se sépareront au sortir de tes entrailles; un de ces peuples sera plus fort que l'autre, et le plus grand sera assujetti au plus petit.

²⁴ Les jours où elle devait accoucher s'accomplirent; et voici, il y avait deux jumeaux dans son ventre.

²⁵ Le premier sortit entièrement roux, comme un manteau de poil; et on lui donna le nom d'Esaü.

²⁶ Ensuite sortit son frère, dont la main tenait le talon d'Esaü; et on lui donna le nom de Jacob. Isaac était âgé de soixante ans, lorsqu'ils naquirent.

²⁷ Ces enfants grandirent. Esaü devint un habile chasseur, un homme des champs; mais Jacob fut un homme tranquille, qui restait sous les tentes.

²⁸ Isaac aimait Esaü, parce qu'il mangeait du gibier; et Rebecca aimait Jacob.

²⁹ Comme Jacob faisait cuire un potage, Esaü revint des champs, accablé de fatigue.

³⁰ Et Esaü dit à Jacob: Laisse-moi, je te prie, manger de ce roux, de ce roux-là, car je suis fatigué. C'est pour cela qu'on a donné à Esaü le nom d'Edom.

³¹ Jacob dit: Vends-moi aujourd'hui ton droit d'aînesse.

³² Esaü répondit: Voici, je m'en vais mourir; à quoi me sert ce droit d'aînesse?

³³ Et Jacob dit: Jure-le moi d'abord. Il le lui jura, et il vendit son droit d'aînesse à Jacob.

³⁴ Alors Jacob donna à Esaü du pain et du potage de lentilles. Il mangea et but, puis se leva et s'en alla. C'est ainsi qu'Esaü méprisa le droit d'aînesse.

¹ There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

² Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

³ Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

⁴ I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

⁵ because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

⁶ Isaac lived in Gerar.

⁷ The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

⁸ It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

⁹ Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

¹⁰ Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

¹¹ Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

¹² Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

¹³ The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

¹⁴ He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

¹⁶ Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

¹⁷ Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

¹⁸ Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

¹⁹ Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

²¹ They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

²² He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

²³ He went up from there to Beersheba.

²⁴ Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

²⁵ He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

²⁷ Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

²⁸ They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

²⁹ that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

³⁰ He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

³¹ They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³² It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

³³ He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

³⁴ When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

³⁵ They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.