Genesis 25:6
But while Abraham was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his ◄concubines/slaves that he had taken to be his secondary wives►, and then he sent them away to live in a land to the east, to keep them far from his son Isaac.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
5Abraham declared that after he died, Isaac would inherit everything he owned.
7Abraham lived until he was 175 years old.
Cross References
Genesis 16:3So Abram ◄slept with/had sex with► Hagar, his wife Sarai’s slave from Egypt. This happened ten years after they went to live in Canaan land. Sarai gave Hagar to her husband to be his secondary wife.
Genesis 25:1Some time after Sarah died, Abraham married another woman, whose name was Keturah.
Genesis 30:4So she gave him her slave, Bilhah, to be another wife for him, and Jacob had sex [EUP] with her.
Genesis 32:22Some time during that night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven sons and his daughter, and he sent them across the ford at the Jabbok River.
Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelis planted things in their fields, the people of Midian and Amalek and other groups from the east invaded Israel.
Judges 19:4The woman’s father asked him to stay. So he stayed there for three days. During that time he ate and drank and slept there.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:2-11
Abraham's Death. ( b. c. 1822.) 1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave… Read the whole commentary →