Did Abraham Remarry Hagar as Keturah After Sarah's Death

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Chayei Sara 9:1

What is written above the matter? "And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi" (Genesis 24:62), and afterward, "And Abraham took another wife" (Genesis 25:1). Rather, at the time when Isaac took Rebekah, Isaac said: Let us go and bring a wife for my father. She is Hagar, she is Keturah — the words of Rabbi. But our Rabbis say: he took another wife. What is Rabbi's reasoning? She is Hagar, she is Keturah — for it is written, "And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi," that same one of whom it is written, "Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi" (Genesis 16:14).

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