Genesis 17:18-20

New International Version - UK

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, ‘If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!’

¹⁹ Then God said, ‘Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.^[a] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. ²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.