Abraham's Death And Burial

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah. Abraham lived another 35 years beyond that time. He took another wife named Keturah. She bore six sons to him. Those sons received gifts from their father, but Isaac received the inheritance. Abraham sent those sons eastward, away from Isaac.

Abraham died at the age of one hundred seventy-five. Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, where Sarah was buried. After Abraham's death, the author tells us, "God blessed his son Isaac (Genesis 25:1-11).

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