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God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
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The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today.
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The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
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Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
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His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.
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Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.
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Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.
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The Death of Abraham
Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
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These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
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These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.
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The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.
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After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
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Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
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But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.
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Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
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He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”
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Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
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He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.
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Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
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Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
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Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”
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She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.
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Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
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She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
