Genesis 25:1
New International Version
Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.

New Living Translation
Abraham married another wife, whose name was Keturah.

English Standard Version
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Berean Standard Bible
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,

King James Bible
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

New King James Version
Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

New American Standard Bible
Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

NASB 1995
Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

NASB 1977
Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Amplified Bible
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Christian Standard Bible
Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,

American Standard Version
And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Abraham went on and he took a wife, and her name was Qentura.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Abraam again took a wife, whose name was Chettura.

Contemporary English Version
Abraham married Keturah,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abraham married another wife, named Cetura:

English Revised Version
And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Abraham married again, and his wife's name was Keturah.

Good News Translation
Abraham married another woman, whose name was Keturah.

International Standard Version
Abraham had taken another wife whose name was Keturah.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Literal Standard Version
And Abraham adds and takes a wife, and her name [is] Keturah;

Majority Standard Bible
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,

New American Bible
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

NET Bible
Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah.

New Revised Standard Version
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

New Heart English Bible
Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

World English Bible
Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Young's Literal Translation
And Abraham addeth and taketh a wife, and her name is Keturah;

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Context
Abraham and Keturah
1Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah, 2and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.…

Cross References
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother's death.

Genesis 25:2
and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

1 Chronicles 1:32
The sons born to Keturah, Abraham's concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.


Treasury of Scripture

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

A.

Genesis 23:1,2
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah…

Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:32,33
Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan…

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Genesis 25
1. The sons of Abraham by Keturah.
5. The division of his goods.
7. His age, death, and burial.
11. God blesses Isaac.
12. The generations of Ishmael.
17. His age and death.
19. Isaac prays for Rebekah, being barren.
22. The children strive in her womb.
24. The birth of Esau and Jacob.
27. Their different characters and pursuits.
29. Esau sells his birthright.














XXV.

ABRAHAM'S MARRIAGE WITH KETURAH.

(1) Then again Abraham took a wife.--This rendering implies that Abraham's marriage with Keturah did not take place until after Sarah's death; but this, though probable, is far from certain, as the Hebrew simply says, And Abraham added and took a wife. This statement is altogether indefinite; but as Abraham was 137 years of age at Sarah's death, and lived to be 175, it is quite possible that, left solitary by Isaac's marriage, he took Keturah to wife, and had by her six sons. The sole objection is his own statement, in Genesis 17:17, that it was a thing beyond nature for a man a hundred years old to have a son; how much more improbable, then, must it have become after forty more years had passed by! The argument on the other side, which would infer that the marriage took place in Sarah's lifetime, from the fact that the birth of grandchildren is mentioned in Genesis 25:3-4, has little weight, as their names might have been subsequently added to bring down the genealogy to a later date.

Jewish commentators cut the knot by identifying Keturah with Hagar, who in the meanwhile had, as they say, set an example of matronly virtue in the manner in which she had devoted herself to the bringing up of Ishmael. But in Genesis 25:6 there is an evident allusion to both Hagar and Keturah in the mention of Abraham's "concubines" in the plural; and in 1Chronicles 1:32 the children of Keturah are distinguished from Hagar's one son, Ishmael. To this we must add that as Ishmael was fourteen years old when Isaac was born, he would be now about fifty-four years of age, and his mother have passed the period of life when she could bear six sons. . . .

Verse 1. - Then again Abraham took a wife, - literally, and Abraham added and took a wife (i.e. a secondary wife, or concubine, pilgash; vide ver. 6 and 1 Chronicles 1:28, 32); but whether after (Kalisch, Lunge, Murphy) or, before (Calvin, Keil, Alford, Bush) Sarah's death it is impossible to decide - and her name was Keturah - "Increase" (Gesenius); probably a servant in the family, as Hagar had been, though not Hagar herself (Targums), whom Abraham had recalled after Sarah's death (Lyra), since ver. 6 speaks of concubines.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now Abraham
אַבְרָהָ֛ם (’aḇ·rā·hām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

had taken
וַיִּקַּ֥ח (way·yiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

another
וַיֹּ֧סֶף (way·yō·sep̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

wife,
אִשָּׁ֖ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

named
וּשְׁמָ֥הּ (ū·šə·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8034: A name

Keturah,
קְטוּרָֽה׃ (qə·ṭū·rāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6989: Keturah -- a wife of Abraham


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