Book of Jasher, Chapter 25 — Abraham Takes Keturah; the Generations of Keturah and of Ishmael
1And it was at that time that Abraham again took a wife in his old age, and her name was Keturah, from the land of Canaan.
2And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuach, being six sons. And the children of Zimran were Abihen, Molich, and Narim.
3And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Medan were Amida, Joab, Gochi, Elisha, and Nothach; and the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.
4And the sons of Ishbak were Makiro, Beyodua, and Tator.
5And the sons of Shuach were Bildad, Mamdad, Munan, and Meban; all these are the families of the children of Keturah the Canaanite woman, whom she bore to Abraham the Hebrew.
6And Abraham sent all these away; and he gave them gifts, and they went away from his son Isaac, to dwell wherever they might find a place.
7And all these went to the mountain at the east, and they built themselves six cities, in which they dwell to this day.
8But the children of Sheba and Dedan, children of Jokshan, with their children, did not dwell with their kinsmen in their cities; and they journeyed and encamped in the countries and wildernesses to this day.
9And the children of Midian, son of Abraham, went to the east of the land of Cush, and there they found a large valley in the eastern country, and they remained there and built a city, and they dwelt in it; that is the land of Midian to this day.
10And Midian dwelt in the city which he built, he and his five sons and all belonging to him.
11And these are the names of the sons of Midian, according to their names in their cities: Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.
12And the sons of Ephah were Methach, Meshar, Avi, and Tzanua; and the sons of Epher were Ephron, Zur, Alirun, and Medin; and the sons of Chanoch were Reuel, Rekem, Azi, Alyoshub, and Alad.
13And the sons of Abida were Chur, Melud, Kerury, and Molchi; and the sons of Eldaah were Miker, and Reba, and Malchiyah, and Gabol; these are the names of the Midianites according to their families; and afterward the families of Midian spread throughout the land of Midian.
14And these are the generations of Ishmael the son of Abraham, whom Hagar, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.
15And Ishmael took a wife from the land of Egypt, and her name was Ribah — the same is Meribah.
16And Ribah bore to Ishmael: Nebayoth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, and their sister Bosmath.
17And Ishmael cast away his wife Ribah, and she went from him and returned to Egypt, to the house of her father, and she dwelt there; for she had been very bad in the sight of Ishmael, and in the sight of his father Abraham.
18And Ishmael afterward took a wife from the land of Canaan, and her name was Malchuth; and she bore him Nishma, Dumah, Masa, Chadad, Tema, Yetur, Naphish, and Kedma.
19These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names — twelve princes according to their nations; and the families of Ishmael afterward spread abroad; and Ishmael took his children, and all the property he had gained, together with the souls of his household and all belonging to him, and they went to dwell where they might find a place.
20And they went and dwelt near the wilderness of Paran; and their dwelling was from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt as you come toward Assyria.
21And Ishmael and his sons dwelt in the land, and they had children born to them, and they were fruitful and increased abundantly.
22And these are the names of the sons of Nebayoth, the firstborn of Ishmael: Mend, Send, and Mayon; and the sons of Kedar were Alyon, Kezem, Chamad, and Eli.
23And the sons of Adbeel were Chamad and Jabin; and the sons of Mibsam were Obadiah, Ebedmelech, and Yeush; these are the families of the children of Ribah, the wife of Ishmael.
24And the sons of Mishma the son of Ishmael were Shamua, Zecaryon, and Obed; and the sons of Dumah were Kezed, Eli, Machmad, and Amed.
25And the sons of Masa were Melon, Mula, and Ebidadon; and the sons of Chadad were Azur, Minzar, and Ebedmelech; and the sons of Tema were Seir, Sadon, and Yakol.
26And the sons of Yetur were Merith, Yaish, Alyo, and Pachoth; and the sons of Naphish were Ebed-Tamed, Abiyasaph, and Mir; and the sons of Kedma were Calip, Tachti, and Omir; these were the children of Malchuth, the wife of Ishmael, according to their families.
27All these are the families of Ishmael according to their generations; and they dwelt in those lands where they had built themselves cities, to this day.
28And Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel, the wife of Abraham's son Isaac, was barren in those days; she had no offspring; and Isaac dwelt with his father in the land of Canaan; and the Lord was with Isaac; and Arpachshad the son of Shem the son of Noah died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of the life of Isaac; and all the days that Arpachshad lived were four hundred and thirty-eight years, and he died.