Book of Jasher (Sefer haYashar) 6

~74~ And Sarah's life was one hundred years, twenty years, and seven years, etc., and Sarah died, etc., and Avraham got up from the face of his death to ask for a grave to bury his wife Sarah, and he went and spoke to the sons of Heth, the inhabitants of the land, as said. I live and dwell selfishly with you, give me a grave estate in your land and I will bury Matti before me. And the sons of Heth said to Abraham, here is the land before you, in the choice of the land your dead is buried because no one will stop you from burying your dead. And Avraham said to them, if you have your heart in this matter, go and ask me from Efron son of Zohar to say the same. And he gave me the cave of Machpelah which is at the end of his field, and I will buy it from him when he wants it. And Ephron sat among the sons of Heth, and they went and called to him, and he came before Abraham. And Ephron said to Abraham, here is everything that you want before you, that your servant will do, and Abraham said no, because I will buy the cave and the field that you have for a price for a grave estate forever. And Ephron answered and said, Here is the field and the cave before you, give what you want. And Avraham said that I will buy her from you with full money, and immediately at the gate of your city and immediately your seed forever. And Ephron and all his brothers heard this thing, and Avraham weighed for Ephron four hundred shekels of silver in the hands of Ephron and in the hands of all his brothers. And Avraham wrote this thing in a book and sealed it, appointing four witnesses. And these are the names of the witnesses, Amigal son of Avishua the Hittite, Elihorof son of Ashuna the Levite, Adon son of Ahira the Gerdi, Akdil son of Abudish the Sidonian. And Avraham took the book of the Makkanah, and put it in his treasures. And these are the things that Avraham wrote in the book to say, that the cave and the field Avraham bought from Ephron the Hittite and his seed and the descendants of his city and their seed forever. For Abraham to inherit and to his seed and to the descendants of Jericho to the estate of a grave forever, and a seal and a set of witnesses. ויקם השדה והמערה אשר בו וכל המקום ההוא לאברהם ולזרעו אחריו מאת בני חת, הנה לפני ממרא בחברון אשר בארץ כנען. And after that, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in that place, and that place and all its borders became a grave estate for Abraham and his seed. And Avraham will bury Sarah with honor as he buries the kings, and she will be buried in very good and beautiful clothes. And there will be there on her bed the name of the son of Noah and Eber his son and Abimelech and Aner and Eshkol and Memara, and all the great men of the land follow the bed. And the days of Sarah will be one hundred and twenty-seven years, and she will die. And Avraham made a great and very heavy obituary for Sarah his wife, and mourned for seven days. And all the inhabitants of the land comforted Abraham and his son Isaac for Sarah. And my days in the classroom passed, and Avraham sent his son Yitzchak and he went to the house there and moved to learn the ways of God and his morals and Yitzchak stayed there for three years. And it came to pass at that time that Abraham and all his servants arose, and they went and returned to Bara Sheba to their home. And Avraham and all his servants dwelt in Be'er Sheva. And it came to pass at the time of the year, that Abimelech king of the Philistines died in that year, he was one hundred and ninety-three years old at the time of his death. And Abraham went with his men to the land of the Philistines and comforted all the houses of Abimelech and all his servants, and he returned and returned to his house.

~75~ ויהי אחרי מות אבימלך ויקחו כל אנשי גרר את בנמלך בנו, והוא בן שתים עשרה שנה וימליכוהו תחת אביו. And they took his name Abimelech as his father's name, because that is what they decided to do in Gerar. And Abimelech reigned under Abimelech his father, and sat on his throne. And Lot son of Haran also died in those days, in the thirty-ninth year of the life of Isaac son of Abraham. And there will be all the days of Lot, who lived one hundred and forty-two years and died. And these are the sons of Lot who were born to him from his daughters, the name of the firstborn is Moab and the name of the second is Ben Ami. And the two sons of Lot went and took wives for them from the land of Canaan and bore them sons. And the sons of Moab shall be Ar, and Meion, and Tersion, and Kenuel, four sons, they are the fathers of the sons of Moab to this day. And the sons of my people, Grim, and Ichim, and Rabbah, and Zelon, and Eenon, and Miov, six sons, are the fathers of the children of Ammon unto this day. And all the families of the sons of Lot went to live in the land they could find, for they prospered and multiplied greatly. And they went and built cities for them in the land where they lived, and they called the names of the cities that they built after their names. And Nur ben Terah, my brother Avraham, died in those days, in the fortieth year of Isaac's life. And all the days of Nahor were two hundred and seventy-two years, and he died and was buried in Haran. And Avraham heard that his brother had died and was very sorry for him, and he mourned for his brother for many days. So Avraham called Eliezer, his great servant who was in charge of his house, and he came before him and stood before him. And Abraham said to him, Behold, I am old, I did not know the day of my death because I came in days. Now get up and take a wife for my son from my family and my father's house in Haran, and I adjure you in the Lord God of Heaven that you will not take a wife for my son from this place and from this land from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom we live. For if you go to my country and homeland, and take a wife for my son from there. And the Lord God of heaven and God of the earth who took me from my father's house and brought me to this place, and said to me, I will give this land to your seed as an inheritance forever. And the servant answered Abraham his master and said, Behold, I have come to your homeland and to your father's house and I have taken a wife for your son from there. And if the woman does not wish to follow me to this land, I will return your son to the land of your birth.

~76~ And Abraham said to him, take care that you do not return the sons of Shema, because God, before whom I went, will send his angel before you and succeed through you. And Eliezer did as Abraham commanded him, and Eliezer swore to Abraham his master about this thing. And Eliezer got up and took ten camels from his master's camels and ten men from his master's servants with him. And they got up and went to Harna, the city of Nahor and Terah, to take a wife for Isaac son of Avraham from there. And it happened when they left, and Avraham sent to a house there and passed and they brought Isaac his son from there. And Yitzchak came to his father's house, Bara Sheba. And Eliezer and his men came to Harana and sat outside the city before the water, and he blessed the camels on the water and they sat there. ויתפלל אליעזר עבד אברהם ויאמר, ה׳ אלוקי אדוני אברהם הקרה נא לפני היום טוב ועשה חסד עם אדוני, אשר תכין היום אישה לבן אדוני ממשפחתו. And God heard in the voice of Eliezer, for Abraham his servant. And the house of Bethuel ben Malka, the wife of Nahor, my brother Avraham's, was dear to him, and Eliezer came to their house. And Eliezer told them all about him and that he was Abraham's servant, and they were very, very happy for him. And they all blessed God, who had done this thing, and gave him Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel of Isaac, to wife. And the girl Tovat looks very virgin and no one knew, Rebecca was ten years old in those days. And Bethuel and Laban and Sarah and his sons made a feast that night, and Eliezer and his men came and ate and drank and rejoiced there that night. And Eliezer got up in the morning, he and the people who were with him, and they called to every house in Bethuel saying that I am here and I will go to my Lord. And they arose and sent Rebekah and Deborah the daughter of Oz from her nurse, and gave her silver and gold and male and female slaves and blessed her. And they sent Eliezer, Abraham's servant, and his men, and the servant took Rebecca and went away. And he sat in the land of Canaan to his lord. And Isaac took Rebekah and she became his wife, and she loved and brought the congregation. And Isaac, who was forty years old, took Rebekah, the daughter of his uncle Bethuel, to wife.

~77~ And it happened at that time that Abraham and Joseph went and took another wife in his old age, and her name was Torah from the land of Canaan. And they will be the sons of Zimran, their father and leader and smeller. And the sons of Yikshan, Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan, Amirah and Yov and Gochi and Elisha and Neta. And the sons of Midian, Ephah, and Afar, and Enoch, and Bidan, and Deua. And the sons of Yeshiva, I know and know and contradict. And Bnei Shuch, Baldad, and Haddad Moshan and Mechan. These are all the families of the Canaanite Keturah who gave birth to Abraham the Hebrew. And Abraham sent all these and gave them gifts, and they went to live with his son Isaac wherever they could find. And all these went to Mount Kedem, and they built six cities for them, and they lived in them until this day. But the sons of Sheba and Dedan and the sons of Yokshan with their sons did not sit with their brothers in their cities, and they will travel and camp in the lands and deserts until this day. And the sons of Midian ben Avraham, went east to the land of Cush and found there a large valley in the ancient land. And they dwelt there and built a city and dwelt in it, it is the land of Midian to this day. And he dwelt in his city, which he and his five sons had built, and all that he had. And these are the names of the sons of Midian by their names in their cities, Aifa, Afar, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaa. And the sons of Ephah will be Miha and Misher and Oi and Lazlue. And the sons of Ephron and Tire and Eliron and Midon. And the sons of Hanoch, Reuel, and Rakem, and Ezi, and Elioshev, and Chaled. And the sons of Ira, Hor and Muller and Croyle and Malchi. And Bnei Doa, and Kikir and Rabe and Warhum and Gebal. These are the families of the Midinites for their families, and later the Midinian families spread throughout the land of Midin. And these are the stories of Ishmael son of Abraham, whom Hagar, the Egyptian slave Sarah, bore to Abraham. And Ishmael took a wife from the land of Egypt and her name was Riva, she was Marisa. And Riva bore Ishmael Nabiyot, and Kedar, and Adaviel, and Mbeshem, and Beshem their sister. And Ishmael banished Riva, and she went away from him and settled in Egypt in her father's house, because she was very evil in the eyes of Ishmael and in the eyes of his father Abraham. And Ishmael took his sons, got up and went to the land of Canaan to Abraham his father and stayed there. And later Ishmael took a wife from the land of Canaan, and her name was Melchit, and she bore him Mesha, and Duma, and Masha, and Hadad, and Timah, and Jetor, and Gefish, and Kadama. These are the sons of Ishmael and those who killed twelve presidents of their nations, and then the families of Ishmael were scattered.

~78~ And Ishmael took his sons and all his possessions that he had acquired and the souls of his household and all that he had, and they went to live wherever they could find. And they went and dwelt near the desert of Paran, and their abode was from Mohila to Shur, which is on the face of Egypt, in the direction of Ashura. And Ishmael and his sons dwelt in that land, and sons were born to them and they multiplied and multiplied greatly. And these are the names of the sons of Nabiyot, the firstborn, Ishmael, Ma'od, Su'ad, and Me'in. And Beni Kader, Alayon and Ketsam and Hamad and Ali. And Beni Adebial, Hamud and Yovin. And the sons of Mebshem, Abdiah and Abd the king of Wieush--these are the families of the sons of Riba, the wife of Ishmael. And there will be sons of Mesha, son of Ishmael, Shemuah, Zacharyon, and Obed. And the sons of Dumah, Ketsem and Ali and Hammed and Amar. And Beni Masha, Melon and Molla and Abed Adon. And Beni Hadad, Nasser and Minzar and Abd Melech. And the sons of Tima, Said and Sa'don and Kevel. And the sons of Yator, Merik and Ya'ish and Aloi and Can. And the sons of Nafish, Abed Tamir and Aviussef and Mir. And the sons of Kadama, Elikhet, Tahithi, and Amir--these were the sons of Malkith the wife of Ishmael for their families. All these are the families of Ishmael in their history, and they lived in the lands they built for them until this day. And Rebekah daughter of Bethuel, wife of Yitzchak ben Avraham, was barren in those days and had no children. And Isaac settled his father Abraham in the land of Canaan, and God made Isaac and Abraham his father. And Arpachshad son of Shem son of Noah died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of Isaac's life. And there will be all the days of Arpachshad that he lived, four hundred and thirty-eight years, and he died.