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61 Then Rebekah and her maids rose up, mounted the camels, and
followed the man; thus the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
62 Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, and was settled in the
Negeb. 63 Isaac went out in the evening to walk in the field; and
looking up, he saw camels coming. 64 And Rebekah looked up, and
when she saw Isaac, she slipped quickly from the camel, 65 and said to
the servant, "Who is the man over there, walking in the field to meet
us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and
covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had
done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent. He took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was
comforted after his mother's death.

[Genesis 25]
The death of Abraham

1 Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 She bore
him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 Jokshan
was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim,
Letushim, and Leummim. 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher,
Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5
Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. 6 But to the sons of his concubines
Abraham gave gifts, while he was still living, and he sent them away
from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

7 This is the length of Abraham's life, one hundred seventy-five years. 8

Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and
full of years, and was gathered to his people. 9 His sons Isaac and
Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron
son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, 10 the field that Abraham
purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with his wife
Sarah. 11 After the death of Abraham God blessed his son Isaac. And
Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.

Overview of the descendants of Ishmael

12 These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar

the Egyptian, Sarah's slave-girl, bore to Abraham. 13 These are the

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