OET-RV by section GEN 25:12

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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Yishmael’s Descendants

25:12 Yishmael’s Descendants

(1 Chr. 1:28-31)

12 Now these are the generations of Yishmael (Ishmael) the son of Avraham, whom Hagar the Mitsri (Egyptian), Sarah’s female slave, had given birth to for Avraham. 13 These are the names of Yishmael’s sons, by their names according to their births: Yishmael’s firstborn was Nevayot, then Kedar, Adbe’el, Mivsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Masa, 15 Hadad, Teyma, Yetur, Nafish, and Kedemah. 16 Those were Yishmael’s sons, and those are their names by their settlements and by their camps—twelve rulers according to their tribes. 17 Yishmael went on to live to be 137 years old, before breathing his last and dying and joining those who’d gone before. 18 His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur (which is near Mitsrayim (Egypt) as you go toward Ashur (Assyria)). He fell in the face of all his brothers.[fn]

25:18 We’ve left this unusual sentence in here, because we don’t really know now what this ancient idiom meant. Possibilities include being hostile to the brothers, living opposite them, or even dying in their presence.