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10 I will make your descendants so numerous,” added the Lord’s angel, “that they will be too many to count.”(A)

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13 As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also,[a] since he too is your offspring.

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  1. 21:13 I will make a nation of him also: Ishmael’s descendants are named in 25:12–18.

18 Get up, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand; for I will make of him a great nation.”

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Descendants of Ishmael. 12 [a]These are the descendants of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham. 13 (A)These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, listed in the order of their birth: Ishmael’s firstborn Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,(B) 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, their names by their villages and encampments; twelve chieftains of as many tribal groups.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:12 Like the conclusion of the Jacob story (chap. 36), where the numerous descendants of the rejected Esau are listed, the descendants of the rejected Ishmael conclude the story.