I will also give many children to the son of the slave woman, so that they will become a nation. He too is your son."

Then he said, "I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them.

I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants.

Ishmael, whom Hagar, the Egyptian slave of Sarah, bore to Abraham,

Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

They were the ancestors of twelve tribes, and their names were given to their villages and camping places.

The descendants of Ishmael lived in the territory between Havilah and Shur, to the east of Egypt on the way to Assyria. They lived apart from the other descendants of Abraham.

The sons of Ishmael became the heads of twelve tribes: Nebaioth (from the name of Ishmael's oldest son), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.