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CHAP. XXV.

 

Abraham hauing manie children by his wife Cetura, died at the age of 175. yeares: 12. Ismael also hauing twelue sonnes Dukes, died. 19. Isaac praying for his barren wife, she hath Esau and Iacob twinnes. 30. Esau selleth his first birth right to Iacob for a messe of potage.

 

AND Abraham maried an other wife named Cetura: ²which bare him Zamran, and Iecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Iesboc, and Sue. ³Iecsan also begat Saba & Dadan. The Children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomim. ⁴But also of Madian was borne Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: al these were the children of Cetura. ⁵And Abraham gaue al his possessions to Isaac: ⁶and ″ to the children of his concubines he gaue guifts, and separated them from Isaac his sonne, whilest himselfe yet liued, to the east countrie. ⁷And the dayes of Abrahams life were a hundred seuentie and fiue yeares. ⁸And decaying dyed in ^[1] a good old age, and hauing liued a great time, and being ful of dayes and was gathered to his people. ⁹And there buried him Isaac and Ismael his sonnes in the double caue, which was situated in the field of Ephron the sonne of Seor the Hethite, ouer-against Mambre, ¹⁰which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife. ¹¹And after his death God blessed Isaac his sonne, who dwelled beside the wel of the Liuing and Seeing, so named. ¹²These are the generations of Ismael the sonne of Abraham, whom Agar the Ægyptian bare him, Saraes seruant: & ¹³these are the names of his children according to their calling and generations. The first begotten of Ismael Nabaioth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam, ¹⁴Masma also, and Duma, and Massa, ¹⁵Hadar, and Thema, and Iethur, and Naphis, and Cedma. ¹⁶These are the sonnes of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and townes, twelue Princes of their tribes. ¹⁷And the yeares of Ismaels life came to an hundred thirtie seauen, and decaying died, and was put vnto his people. ¹⁸And he dwelt from Heuila euen to Sur, which looketh towards Ægypt, as they enter to the Assirians, before the face of al his bretheren died he. ¹⁹These also are the generations of Isaac the sonne of Abraham: Abraham begat Isaac: ²⁰who when he was fourtie yeares old, tooke to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban. ²¹And Isaac besought our Lord for his wife, because she was barren: who ″ heard him, and made

1. The life of the iust hath fulnes of dayes though it be otherwise short; the daies of the wicked are void of fruit, be they manie or few. S. Ambros. li. de Abraham.