14. Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
15. Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16. Each of Ishmael's sons was a tribal chief, and a village was named after each of them.
17-18. Ishmael had settled in the land east of his brothers, and his sons settled everywhere from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt on the way to Asshur. Ishmael was one hundred and thirty-seven when he died.
19. Isaac was the son of Abraham,
20. and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria.Almost twenty years later,
21. Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the Lord to let her have a child, and the Lord answered his prayer.
22. Before Rebekah gave birth, she knew she was going to have twins, because she could feel them inside her, fighting each other. She thought, “Why is this happening to me?” Finally, she asked the Lord why her twins were fighting,
23. and he told her:“Your two sons will becometwo separate nations.The younger of the twowill be stronger,and the elder sonwill be his servant.”