²⁷ As Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed Him, shouting loudly, Have pity and mercy on us, Son of David!

²⁸ When He reached the house and went in, the blind men came to Him, and Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They said to Him, Yes, Lord.

²⁹ Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith and trust and reliance [on the power invested in Me] be it done to you;

³⁰ And their eyes were opened. And Jesus earnestly and sternly charged them, See that you let no one know about this.

³¹ But they went off and blazed and spread His fame abroad throughout that whole district.

³² And while they were going away, behold, a dumb man under the power of a demon was brought to Jesus.

³³ And when the demon was driven out, the dumb man spoke; and the crowds were stunned with bewildered wonder, saying, Never before has anything like this been seen in Israel.

³⁴ But the Pharisees said, He drives out demons through and with the help of the prince of demons.

³⁵ And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom and curing all kinds of disease and every weakness and infirmity.

³⁶ When He saw the throngs, He was moved with pity and sympathy for them, because they were bewildered (harassed and distressed and dejected and helpless), like sheep without a shepherd.^(A)

³⁷ Then He said to His disciples, The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few.

³⁸ So pray to the Lord of the harvest to ^[a]force out and thrust laborers into His harvest.

25 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

² And 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 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

⁶ But to the sons of his concubines [Hagar and Keturah] Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them to the east country, away from Isaac his son [of promise].

⁷ The days of Abraham’s life were 175 years.

⁸ Then Abraham’s spirit was released, and he died at a good (ample, full) old age, an old man, satisfied and satiated, and ^[a]was gathered to his people.^(A)

⁹ And his sons ^[b]Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre,

¹⁰ The field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

¹¹ After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi [A well to the Living One Who sees me].

¹² Now this is the history of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham.

¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their births: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

¹⁴ Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

¹⁵ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments (sheepfolds)—twelve princes according to their tribes. [Foretold in Gen. 17:20.]

¹⁷ And Ishmael lived 137 years; then his spirit left him, and he died and was gathered to his kindred.

¹⁸ And [Ishmael’s sons] dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt in the direction of Assyria. [Ishmael] dwelt close [to the lands] of all his brethren.

¹⁹ And this is the history of the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac.

²⁰ Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

²¹ And Isaac prayed much to the Lord for his wife because she was unable to bear children; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife became pregnant.

²² [Two] children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so [that the Lord has heard our prayer], why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord.

²³ The Lord said to her, [The founders of] two nations are in your womb, and the separation of two peoples has begun in your body; the one people shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

²⁴ When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

²⁵ The first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they named him Esau [hairy].

²⁶ Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand grasped Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob [supplanter]. Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

²⁷ When the boys grew up, Esau was a cunning and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a plain and quiet man, dwelling in tents.

²⁸ And Isaac loved [and was partial to] Esau, because he ate of Esau’s game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

²⁹ Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger].

³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, I beg of you, let me have some of that red lentil stew to eat, for I am faint and famished! That is why his name was called Edom [red].

³¹ Jacob answered, Then sell me today your birthright (the rights of a firstborn).

³² Esau said, See here, I am at the point of death; what good can this birthright do me?

³³ Jacob said, Swear to me today [that you are selling it to me]; and he swore to [Jacob] and sold him his birthright.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau scorned his birthright as beneath his notice.