¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, ^(A)twelve princes according to their tribes.

²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and ^(A)multiply him greatly. He ^(B)shall father twelve princes, and ^(C)I will make him into a great nation.

²³ Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.