“But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.”
Genesis 25:6
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- Abraham Dies at 'a Ripe Old Age,' Just as God Told Him (Genesis 25:1–11)
Why did Abraham send Keturah's sons to the east?
Abraham sent Keturah's sons east so that Isaac alone would inherit the estate and the promise (Genesis 25:5). The Laws of Hammurabi (laws 170 and 171), from Mesopotamia a few centuries before Moses, let a father decide in his lifetime whether a slave wife's sons would share the inheritance. Abraham decided while he was alive: Isaac received everything, the others gifts.
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