Marry Off Your Children First as Abraham Did with Keturah

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 109:14

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Rabbi Yudan said: The Torah has taught you proper conduct, that if a person has grown children, he should first marry them off, and only afterward take a wife for himself. From whom do you learn this? From Abraham. First it says, "And Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother" (Genesis 24:67), and only at the end, "And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah" (Genesis 25:1).

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