Keturah

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Her name is Keturah.  Keturah is translated, "Incense."  She is the wife of Abraham after Sarah's death, And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.  But all that Abraham had he gave to Isaac.
 But to the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
(Genesis chapter twenty-five)



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