◄ Genesis 25:16 ►
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Good News Translation
They were the ancestors of twelve tribes, and their names were given to their villages and camping places.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.

Contemporary English Version
Each of Ishmael's sons was a tribal chief, and a village was named after each of them.

New American Bible
These are the sons of Ishmael, their names by their villages and encampments; twelve chieftains of as many tribal groups.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

castles.

twelve.

Genesis 17:20,23 And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. . . .

Context
The Descendants of Ishmael
…15Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma. 16These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.17And the years of Ismael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:20
And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 25:15
Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.

Numbers 31:10
And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.

1 Chronicles 6:54
And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.

Genesis 25:15
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